FAMOUS LAST WORDS (add your list)

[Liz]

FAMOUS WORDS OF PATRIOTS

Nathan Hale about to be hung during the American Revolution "I have but one life to give to my country."

Ronald Reagan," We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.” Normandy, France, June 6, 1984

Patrick Henry on what is might be like to live without freedom "Give me liberty or give me death!"

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FAMOUS WORDS OF TRAITOROUS WEASELS

Terry McAuliffe as he was about to lose his DNC job, " Jeb Bush is gone."

David Khan at the Wellstone memorial-campaign about to hand absolute power to Republicans, " Let's win this for Paul."

Mark Wellstone dancing on his father's grave, "We will win, we will win, we will win."

Bob Torricelli exposed as a corrupt Senator on-the-take, 20 points down in the polls," When did we become such an unforgiving nation?"

Bill Clinton (yuck, barf and blech), "I never had sex with that woman."

[TheAngryClam]

Redneck: "Hey y'all, watch this!"

Sadly, I have friends whom I fully expect to have that as their last words.

[yonif]

"Political power grows from the barrel of a gun." Chairman Mao Zedong

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter." Winston Churchill

"Free men are not equal.
Equal men are not free."

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance." Thomas Paine

"What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger" F. Nietzsche (1844-1900)

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Peter Cushing in "Star Wars" - "What, leave now? At my moment of greatest triumph?" - just before the Death Star goes blooey.

[Snake65]

"Don't worry boys, they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
-Union General John Sedgewick at Spotsylvania, Virginia

[Southack]

Banzai!

[19th LA Inf]

4-time Louisiana Governor Edwards (now in Fed pen):
"The only way they will ever get me is if they catch me in bed with a live boy or a dead woman"

[hole_n_one]

These oysters don't smell that bad....

[Cvengr]

Wellstone memorial-campaign--- "It's the type of funeral Paul would have wanted." (one prior to Mondale being beaten in his home state.)

[WhirlwindAttack]

"I drank what?" Socrates

[laredo44]

"Let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette

[bvw]

Famous and good, but not meeting the "last words" category, I think.

[ex-snook]

Monica, no one will ever know.

[bvw]

"I bet we can pass that guy." -- unknown

[Chi-townChief]

General Armstrong Custer, 1876:

"Holy cow! Look at all those f---ing Indians!!!"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Here's a great site for famous last words...and famous obituaries and epitaphs as well. It was so good, I hijacked it and put it up on my server. Enjoy

Famous Last Words

[Vetnet]

Villa, Francisco "Pancho" (Doroteo Arango) (1878-1923)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

(On the other hand, some say that Abe Lincoln was just laughing....)

[laredo44]

"Tell them to win just one, for the Gipper." - George Gipp

[A_perfect_lady]

Molly Ivins' book on George W. Bush written back in 1998:

SHRUB: THE SHORT POLITICAL LIFE OF GEORGE W. BUSH

Is that hilarious or what? Oh, her other recent flash of brilliance was a column in which she essentially said, "Give the terrorists what they want and we'll have peace. Look, it worked in Northern Ireland!" A week later, a bomb went off in Northern Ireland. God, she's an idiot.

[A_perfect_lady]

"Allah Akbar!"

[laredo44]

"Jefferson lives." - John Adams

[Lady Jag]

It's not US politics but this one has always stuck with me:

It was at L'Hotel, a Paris hotel where one of literary history's most famous last lines was supposedly uttered — Oscar Wilde's deathbed statement that "Either the wallpaper goes or I do."

[Southack]

That's "Allah u Akbar" to you, lady!

[Lizavetta]

"Scoot over and let me fly this baby." Senator Paul Wellstone

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[yonif]

I am ready.
~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924

[mystery-ak]

*This looks bad*...Jack Dawson telling Rose after the Titantic hits the iceberg.

[Mike-o-Matic]

   Monica, no one will ever know.

If only they really *had been* last words. Unfortunately he hasn't shut up yet.

[boris]

On the headstone of a hypochondriac: "See, I told you I was sick!"

--Boris

[yonif]

"Why yes — a bulletproof vest." — James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad.

[Lokibob]

The most famous last word, found on multiple threads in DU wed:

"ALL YOU SENATE BELONG TO US"

[MrDaddyLongLegs]

This is my personal motto ;

It is Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on your Knees

[monkeywrench]

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. Executed by injection, Oklahoma. ~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995

You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother. Executed in electric chair. ~~ Francis "Two Gun" Crowley, d. 1931

[Brytani]

You win!!!!!!!

[Jagdgewehr]

"This is too tight."

C.S.A. Captain Henery Wirz. Commander of the infamous Andersonville prison camp, just prior to his hanging.

[Libloather]

"You gave me the ride of my life and I tried to give as good as I got." - The impeached *One - January 20, 2001.

[pankot]

"These mushrooms don't taste funny to me...."

[Mogger]

Ethan Allen, while on his death bed, was visited by a preacher, who told him, "Ethan, the Angels are waiting".

Ethan responded' "Let 'em wait".

Then he died.

[Dog]

Sept 11,2001...

Todd Beamer asking his fellow passengers if they were ready....then saying those famous words .. Which rallied a stricken nation...

Let's Roll!

[reagan_fanatic]

Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the f*** was that!??"

[Liz]

Thanx for the link....I'll get to it later.

[Liz]

Good done....ROTFL.

[Liz]

Can't stand her.

[agrandis]

Johnny Horton, or Johnny Cash: "I got livestock; I got livestock; I got pigs; I got horses; I got sheep; I got mules; I got aaaaaaaall livestock!"

[Movemout]

Johnny Cash-- "I got pig iron, I got pig iron, I got all pig iron."

[CyberAnt]

Ann Richards - "stick a fork in him he's done" (regarding GW)

[Libloather]

Ethan Allen...

Not to mention that Ethan makes some damn fine furniture...

[Movemout]

Seen on a faux tombstone in Disney World (more or less)

Les Moore
Dead from a shot from a .44
No Les No More

[CyberAnt]

George W. Bush: "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail".