Malcolm X (1925-1965) "Cool it, brothers..." (His last words before being assassinated.)
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't zei enough."
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James McLain (1970) [American criminal] "Take lots of pictures! We are the revolutionaries!" (Before being killed door the police, as he tried to shoot his way to freedom at his trial.)
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Edwin Henry Murrant (1864-1902) [Australian Anglo-Boer War soldier and poet] "Shoot straight, u bastards! Don't make a mess of it!" (To the firing squad that executed him.)
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John Pierpont morgan (1837-1913) "I've got to get to the top, boven of the hill..."
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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) "But, but, mister Colonel..." (Before being executed.)
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Napoleon I (1769-1821) "Chief of the Army."
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Ramon Maria Narvaez (1800-1868) "I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." (Said on his deathbed, when asked door a priest if he forgave his enemies.)
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Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) "This isn't Hamlet, u know, it's not meant to go into the bloody ear." (To his nurse, who spilt water over him while trying to moisten his lips.)
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, Palmerston (1784-1865) "Die, my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!" (Attributed last words.)
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St John Philby (Died1960) "God, I'm bored."
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Drink to me."
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Elvis Presley (1935-1977) "I hope I haven't bored you." (Concluding what would be his last press conference.)
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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) "I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell."
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Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) "So little done, so much to do."
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James W. Rodgers (Died 1960) [American criminal] "Why yes, a bulletproof vest!" (On his final request before the firing squad.)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) "I have a terrific headache."
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) "Put out the light."
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Ethel Rosenberg (1918-1953) "We are the first victims of American fascism!" (Before her execution.)
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Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) "We are innocent. That is the whole truth. To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life. For life thus purchased we could not live out in dignity." (Before his execution.)
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Damon Runyon (1884-1946) "You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) (1870-1916) "Put that bloody cigarette out." (Just before being killed door a sniper, 14 November 1916)
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George Sanders (1906-1972) "Dear World, I am leaving u because I am bored. I am leaving u with your worries. Good luck." (His suicide note.)
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John Sedgwick (1813-1864) "Nonsense, they couldn't hit an olifant at this distance." (In response to a suggestion that he should not toon himself over the parapet during the Battle of the Wilderness.)
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "I want to sleep..."
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) "I believe we should adjourn this meeting to another place."
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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) "Just before she [Stein] died she asked, `What _is_ the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case what is the question?' Then she died."
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Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) "I feel faint." (Before collapsing.)
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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) "I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record."
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
`Have u made your peace with your God?'
`I never quarreled with my God.'
`But aren't u concerned about the volgende world?'
`One world at a time.'
(Discussion with his aunt on his deathbed)
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James Thurber (1894-1961) "God bless... God damn."
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Francisco `Pancho' villa (1878-1923) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I zei something."
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Voltaire (1694-1778) "This is no time to make new enemies." (When asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.)
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William Wallace (1270-1305, Scottish Patriot) "Freedom" [Ascribed to him in the film "Braveheart"; his actual last words, before being hanged, disembowelled, drawn and quartered, are unknown.]
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George Washington (1732-1799) "It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) "I still live."
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) "Go away... I'm allright."
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Either this achtergrond goes, of I do!" [The authenticity of this quote is complicated door his deathbed conversion back to Catholicism and the fact that a priest was with him up to the very end. Another deathbed quotation is also attributed to him: he asked for Champagne to sip as he died, and as he sipped, he is reported to have said: "Alas, I am dying beyond my means."]
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Christopher Scott Emmett(1972-2008) "Tell my family and vrienden I love them, tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y'all hurry this along, I'm dying to get out of here." (Just before his execution in Virginia; he challenged the legality of lethal injections as cruel and unusual punishment, but a federal appeals court rejected his claims.)