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"Help."
"No, you certainly can't."
"Send Mike immediately."
"I want to go. God take me."
"I love you, too."
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"That's good. Go on, read some more."
"I have tried so hard to do right."
"I have a terrific headache."
"Are the doctors here? Doctor, my lungs..."
"Goodbye, all, goodbye. It is God’s way. His will be done."
"I know I am going where Lucy is."
"Water."
"She won't think anything about it."
"Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou wilt!"
"The nourishment is palatable."
"I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends."
"There is but one reliance."
"I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you."
"I understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."
"I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him."
"Thomas Jefferson survives."
"Tis well."
"Oh, do not cry. Be good children and we shall meet in heaven."
"This is the last of earth. I am content."
"Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear."
"When the machinery is broken... I am ready."
"Swaim, can't you stop the pain?"
"Put out the light."
"No, doctor, nothing more."
"I hope to meet each of you in heaven. Be good, children, all of you, and strive to be ready when the change comes."
"Perhaps it is best."
"Good morning, Robert."
The final words of certain US presidents remain lost to history, while others have been documented but sometimes accounts vary of what they really said. Still, whether uttered unintentionally or with the full expectation of death, a person's last words are those that people will often remember. They also remind us above all how human these public figures truly were, and even add to their mythology.
Sometimes profound, sometimes mundane, click on for the final words spoken by US presidents.
Final words of 32 US presidents
From the mundane to the profound
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The final words of certain US presidents remain lost to history, while others have been documented but sometimes accounts vary of what they really said. Still, whether uttered unintentionally or with the full expectation of death, a person's last words are those that people will often remember. They also remind us above all how human these public figures truly were, and even add to their mythology.
Sometimes profound, sometimes mundane, click on for the final words spoken by US presidents.