"Sic semper tyrannis" is a Latin phrase that means "thus always to tyrants" and is sometimes mistranslated as "death always to tyrants", though they both have the same meaning. The phrase was first attributed to Marcus Brutus during the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC; it was also used by John Wilkes Booth, he reportedly shouted it right before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865; Timothy McVeigh was wearing a shirt with the phrase and a picture of Abraham Lincoln on it when he was arrested in connection with the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It is often used as a rallying cry to overthrow leaders that are viewed as tyrants.