agree. i think if a politican seen too much the more hated
Do you mean he divided their heads from their bodies
He was a proper king b. He would have been at home in Game of Thrones
It could be born of a mild embarrassment that we're all actuallydoing really rather well out of it.
Michael Corleone put it quite well although I forget exactly how.
Oh, nothing gets done historically because people want to be nice.
Generally, there has to be a pragmatic principle at work or it won't happen (although the abolition of slavery is the major exception, being probably the first time in history a nation has acted against its own perceived interests simply because it believed it was right to do so).
"If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything,
it is that you can kill anyone"
That was sort of the joke, yes,

Try telling that to the taxman and see how far you get.
That one was about JFK, I thought?
No. The one I mean was to do with being embarrassed about wealth, as a ploy to fool the poor.
More of a bigoted, small-minded housewife