LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS & INFAMOUS PEOPLE

LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS & INFAMOUS PEOPLE What they said when they died. Funny, sober, pathetic & hopeful. Also the martyrs' last words!

Alexander the Great, conquered land ONLY from Macedonia to Pakistan, & died at the age of 33 with his boots on, weeping: "There are no more other worlds to conquer!" "Give me my glasses." Mark Twain AMERICAN AUTHOR, 1835-1910: Paul Claudell 1868-1955 French poet, playwright and diplomat "Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?"

Sir Thomas More English Catholic statesman, beheaded in 1535 on orders of Henry the Eight, for his convictions, because he wouldn’t endorse Henry's divorce: “The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender” and later on the block"Oh God, have pity on my soul. Oh God, have pity on my soul." “See me safe up (onto the scaffold); for my coming down, let me shift for myself" Anne Boleyn Protestant wife of Henry the Eight. Before being decapitated on orders of her husband whom she never derided, she quipped:

Henry the Eighth King of England, d. 1547: When his turn came: "All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! So, now all is gone, Empire, Body & Soul!" Hannibal Carthaginian general, often considered to be one of the greatest generals to have ever lived, who crossed the Alps on elephants, and almost conquered Rome. "Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man."

James Dean 1931-1955: Jewish Hollywood’s tool to make “being cool” & “teenage rebellion” popular, thus artificially creating “the generation gap” that divided children from their parents, & destroyed the Western family unit, and ultimately that of the entire world! Shortly before his fatal car crash: "My fun days are over." Voltaire 1694-1778 French atheist/deist philosopher & writer "This is no time to make new enemies." (When asked on his deathbed to foreswear Satan.)

Henry Ward Beecher EVANGELIST 1813-1887 : “Now comes the mystery.” Pancho Villa MEXICAN REBEL, ASSASSINATED BY HIS OWN ASSOCIATES, 1878-1923: His last words, while clutching a comrade after being shot:“Don't let it end like this, tell them I said something good."

Cesar Augustus: ROMAN EMPEROR 63 BC – 14 AD "Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!" Dr. William Hunter The Scottish anatomist and obstetrician William Hunter (1718-1783) "If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die."

Woodrow Wilson 28th PRESIDENT of the U.S.A., held office during WW1, 1856-1924, also asked God to forgive him for betraying his country to the international bankers by allowing their “Federal Reserve” central bank! "Edith, (his wife) I'm a broken machine, but I'm ready." Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th PRESIDENT of the U.S.A., 1890-1969, who after WW2 allowed the genocide of many millions of German soldiers and civilians in p.o.w camps! "I want to go; God take me."

Ludwig van Beethoven Composer, d. March 26, 1827 "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished." Thomas Alva Edison AMERICAN INVENTOR, 1847-1931: “It is very beautiful over there."

Heinrich Heine A great Skeptic later changed his attitude. In the postscript to his poem collection Romancero, he wrote: "When you are on your deathbed, you become more sensitive and you would like to make peace with God and the world. Poems, that only contained halfway reproaches against God, I delivered over to the flames in a fearful zeal. It is better, that the verses burn than the verse maker. I returned to God as a prodigal son, after I fed the swine with the Hegelians for a long time. In the theology I have to accuse myself of retreating, because I returned to a personal God." As he died: "God will forgive me. It's his job." Michelangelo ITALIAN ARTIST, SCULPTOR, PAINTER, ARCHITECT AND POET, 1475-1564. Before dying he said, "I die for the faith of Jesus Christ, and in the firm hope of a better life."

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British statesman. On his deathbed, declining an offer of a visit from Queen Victoria. "No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert." Queen Victoria Queen Of England & Empress Of India, 1819-1901: To her husband Albert: "Oh, that peace might come. Bertie!”

Leo Tolstoy RUSSIAN NOVELIST & PHILOSOPHER, 1828-1910:Refusing to reconcile himself with the Russian Orthodox Church as he lay dying, he said "Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.“ John Keats ENGLISH POET, 1795-1821: "Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come."."

John Quincy Adams SIXTH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., 1767-1848 : "This is the last of earth! I am content." John Adams 2nd PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., 1735-1826: "Thomas Jefferson--still survives...." (Actually, Jefferson had died earlier that same day. See next page)

Thomas Jefferson 3rd PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., 1743-1826 "Is it the Fourth?" Benjamin Franklin AMERICAN STATESMAN & INVENTOR, 1706-1790 “A dying man can do nothing easy.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe GERMAN POET & SCIENTIST 1749-1832: Come my little one, and give me your hand. Spoken to his daughter, Ottilie. Josef Addison English essayist, poet & man of letters "See in what peace a Christian can die.."

Patrick Henry AMERICAN PATRIOT, 1736-1799: On the 6th of June, as Dr. Cabell, his physician, was weeping bitterly, the dying patriot asked the doctor to “observe how great a reality and benefit the Christian religion was to a man about to die." Thomas A. Beckett Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1170, was martyred in the church “I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.”

Lord Kelvin FOREMOST AMONG THE SMALL GROUP OF BRITISH SCIENTISTS WHO HELPED TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN PHYSICS. 1824–1907 “Mathematics and dynamics fail us Sir Isaac Newton GREATEST CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST. 1642- 1727 "I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British prime minister who could have made peace with Germany that had no desire for war with Britain, contrary to public opinion, but he chose to make war for the Rothschild Bankers. “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Karl Marx Economist (1818-83), adept of Satanist Moses Hess & a protégé of international bankers, died surrounded by candles burning to Lucifer. To his housekeeper who asked him if he had any last words, "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

SIGMUND FREUD PSYCHOLOGIST, 1856-1939 FATHER OF PSYCHO ANALYSIS & the “art” of introspection: "Now it is nothing but torture." LORD PALMERSTON 1784-1865 Prime Minister of England "Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do."

ROBERT THE BRUCE King of Scotland, 1274-1329. He eventually followed William Wallace’s example to fight & defeat the English. "Now, God be with you, my dear children. I have breakfasted with you and shall sup with my Lord Jesus Christ." Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury (1489-1556), ordered to publicly recant, repudiated his earlier recantations. Cranmer's last words at the stake were recorded as: "This is the hand that wrote it, and therefore shall it suffer first punishment," and ”I have sinned, in that I signed with my hand what I did not believe with my heart. When the flames are lit, this hand shall be the first to burn.", then he said: "I see Heaven open and Jesus on the right hand of God."

PROF. THOMAS HUXLEY FAMOUS AGNOSTIC, 1856-1939 As he lay dying he suddenly looked up at some sight invisible to mortal eyes, and staring awhile, whispered at last, "So it is true..." JOHN HUSS A Czech priest who became the leader of a reform religious movement. With his attacks on the church's wealth and corruption, he antagonized the archbishop and clergy of Prague. He was forbidden to preach and finally ex-communicated. Tricked by the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund, he attended a reform council, where he was arrested, condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake. "You are now going to burn a goose, (the Bohemian name of Huss signifying goose), but in a century you will have a swan whom you can neither roast nor boil.“ (Martin Luther!) "O sancta simplicitas! ["O holy simplicity!" On noticing a peasant adding a faggot to the pile at his execution.]

THOMAS HOBBES POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER AND ATHEIST, 1588 - 1679 “Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." DWIGHT L. MOODY CHRISTIAN PREACHER, 1837 - 1899 Awakening from sleep shortly before he died said: "Earth recedes. Heaven opens before me. If this death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go." "No, no, Father," said Moody's son, "You are dreaming." "I am not dreaming," replied Moody. "I have been within the gates. I have seen the children's faces."His last words were, "This is my triumph; this is my coronation day! It is glorious!"

EDITH LOUISA CAVELL 1865-1915 ENGLISH NURSE & VICTIM OF INTL. BANKERS WHO ORGANISED HER DEATH BY GERMAN EXECUTION (To the chaplain who attended her before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915) "Standing, as I do, in the view of God and eternity I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." WILLIAM WALLACE SCOTTISH PATRIOT,”Braveheart” 1270-1305 William Wallace's last words before he was hung, disemboweled, drawn, and quartered before an angry London crowd,according to the popular movie by Mel Gibson, were: “FREEDOM!!!!"

LATIMER & RIDLEY Burnt alive at Oxford in 1555. Then they brought a lighted fagot, and laid the same down at Ridley’s feet; upon which Latimer said calling out from the fire,“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”(Foxe's Book of Martyrs) Niccolo Machiavelli FLORENTINE DIPLOMAT & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER, - 1527 "I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles"

Jesus of Nazareth Son of God 4 BC?-30 AD) 1stFather, forgive them; for they know not what they do.And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. (Lk 23:34) 2ndAnd Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Lk 23:43) 3rdWhen Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother,Woman, behold thy son! (John 19:26) 4thAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mk 15:34) 5thAfter this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (Jn 19:28) 6th When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (Jn 19:30) 7thAnd when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. (Lk 23:46)

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LAST WORDS OF FAMOUS & INFAMOUS PEOPLE