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Ernesto “Che”
Guevara, revolutionary To his executioner:: “I know you have come to
kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Heinrich
Heine, poet “God will pardon me, that’s his line of work.”
Henry VIII,
King of England “All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!”
Andrew
Jackson, U.S. President “Oh, do not cry—be good
children and we will all meet in heaven.”
Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson, U.S. Confederate General
“Let us
cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.”
Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president, died July 4, 1826 “Is it the Fourth?”
Louis XIV,
King of France, “Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
Louis XVIII,
King of France, “A King should die standing”
Louise, Queen of Prussia “I am a queen, hut I have not the power to move my
arms.”
Malcolm X,
African-American civil rights activist To the men who shot him:
“Let’s cool it, brothers...
Karl
Marx, revolutionary "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t
said enough”
Benito
Mussolini, Italian dictator “Shoot me in the chest and don’t make a
mess of it!”
Eugene
O’Neill, dramatist “I knew it. Born in a hotel room—and God
damn it--died in a hotel”
Anna
Pavlova, ballerina “Get my swan costume ready.”
Pablo
Picasso, painter “Drink to me!”
Pancho
Villa, Mexican revolutionary "Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said
something.”
Leonardo da Vinci, artist,
inventor, Renaissance man “I have offended God and mankind because my
work didn’t reach the quality it should have.”
Florenz
Ziegfeld, showman “Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale!
Great! The show looks good”
There is no record of Patrick
Henry actually saying, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
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