I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
All men would be tyrants if they could.