"Don't let it end like this, tell them I said something." -- Pancho Villa
"The ladies have to go first... Get in the lifeboat, to please me... Good-bye, dearie. I'll see you later." -- John Jacob Astor, IV (1864-1912), on board the sinking Titanic
"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man." -- Guevara, Ernesto "Che" (1928-1967)
"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!" -- Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
"Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks." -- Lawrence, James (1781-1813). This is the quote from which "Don't give up the ship!" is derived.