
The New York Times (26 November 1978)
Source: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
The New York Times (26 November 1978)
“Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!”
Apocryphal account of Palmerston's last words - Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men, 6th ed., comp. by Samuel Arthur Bent. Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887; [Date of Printout]. via Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/344/308.html
Misattributed
“I was the only calm one in the house. You see I’ve been shot at by experts.”
Comment on his World War I experience after an assassination attempt on (1 November 1950) as quoted in Bess W. Truman (1986) by Margaret Truman
“Then I will speak upon the ashes.”