Manley, B. (2015). Union Officer to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroics at Gettysburg. Military History, 31(5), 8.
Final words spoken before dying from a bullet wound to the head.
From interview with Subhash K. Jha
Exclusive from His Telluride Home: The Tom Cruise Interview (May 29, 2008)
“But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.”
Source: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 18 (p. 213)
“The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.”
On defendants in the Moscow Trials and on innocents betrayed by Communist Party members, as recounted by philosopher Sidney Hook, as quoted in Intellectuals (1990) by Paul Johnson, p. 190; though this might easily be interpreted as implying that anyone who had failed to conspire against Stalin deserved to be shot, Hook implies that he meant that the betrayal of innocents was justified. Henry Pachter is also quoted in Intellectuals as saying that Brecht had made similar remarks in his presence, and had added "Fifty years hence the communists will have forgotten Stalin, but I want to be sure that they will still read Brecht. Therefore I cannot separate myself from the Party."
“Hall continues: Give cricket a shot in the bails it needs!”
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BBC Fighting Talk (2005)
“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
Column, The Miami Herald, 21 January 1996
Columns and articles
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From police transcripts of incoherent deathbed confession
