
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.
“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”
Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)
“I have always had one answer for Communists-kill them all.”
[CHINESE WARLORD, LIFE Magazine Vol. 25, No. 18, 1 Nov 1948, 57, http://books.google.com/books?id=ekoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&dq=Ma-Hung-kwei&hl=en&ei=v62VTIzPJsKqlAem5P2kCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=snippet&q=Ma-Hung-kwei%20i%20have%20always%20had%20one%20answer%20for%20communists%20kill%20them%20all&f=false]
“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
Source: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 10 "Child Training"
The last line here has sometimes been misquoted as "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." It has also been attributed to, among others, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill. The misquoted version also frequently begins, "I've never wished a man dead..." or "I never wanted to see anybody die..."
Context: Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Source: The Intellectual Student’s Guide to Survival (1968), pp. 78-79
“I killed you! And you didn’t even notice!”
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 14, “Hospital” (p. 235)
Statements proceeding introduction of husband at College Opportunity Summit (16 January 2014) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/16/remarks-president-and-first-lady-college-opportunity-summit
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