[Never on my watch]

Dear King George,

Congrats on that whole Boston Massacre thing.

John Adams

[Tribune7]

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had a right to kill in their own defence;

John Adams and the Boston Massacre :-)