19 Morbidly Awesome Last Words

1.

Kit Carson, pioneer

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Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (after shaking the hand of every man on the firing squad)

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Tallulah Bankhead, actress

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Nostradamus: "Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."

5.

Giles Corey (while being crushed with stones after being accused of witchcraft)

6.

Carl Panzram, Serial Killer

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James French, murderer: (while being strapped in the electric chair) "Hey fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French Fries!"

8.

Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, murderer

9.

Before his assassination, someone said to John F. Kennedy, "You certainly cannot say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome, Mr. President." Kennedy responded, "No, you certainly can't."

10.

James Brown: "I'm going away tonight."

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Marie Antoinette: "Pardon me sir, I did not do it on purpose." (after stepping on her executioner's foot)

12.

Che Guevara, revolutionary: "I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man."

13.

Alexander II of Russia: "Home to the palace to die." (He said this to his guards after an anarchist detonated a bomb in his carriage. His guards took him to the palace, where he died.)

14.

Chief Sitting Bull (who led the natives to victory at Custer's Last Stand)

15.

Alexander the Great: "To the strongest!" (passing his empire to his strongest man, Krateros)

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Voltaire, philosopher: "Now is not the time for making new enemies." (While on his deathbed, Voltaire said this to a priest who asked him if he would like to renounce Satan.)

17.

French grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to--or I am going to--die: either expression is correct."

18.

John Quincy Adams: "This is the last of Earth! I am content!"

19.

Humphrey Bogart: "I should have never switched from Scotch to Martinis."