Remember me? Uh...

I imagine the vast majority of us want to be immortal, or at least be remembered - through our families, careers, contributions to the lives of others, charity work, medical or scientific life-saving discoveries, being funny, through good example, whatever.  Some try harder than others.  Some succeed:
“Et tu, Brute?” Julius Caesar, while being assassinated in Rome in 44 BC.
“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in saying the words Ich bin ein Berliner!” John F. Kennedy, speaking to the people of Berlin during the Berlin crisis in 1963.
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Winston Churchill, honouring the pilots of the Battle of Britain in 1940.
“Imagine all the people sharing all the world.” John Lennon, lyrics from ‘Imagine’, 1971.
“C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre!” A French general’s remark on witnessing the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War (1853-1856).
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” President Abraham Lincoln speaking at Clinton in 1858.
“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.” Sir Francis Drake, while finishing a game of bowls before sailing off to defeat the Spanish armada off the coast of England in 1588.
“Nuts!” General Anthony McAuliffe’s response to a German command, that he and his troops surrender or face annihilation, during Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
“The Times they are a-changin’.” Bob Dylan, 1964, from the song of the same title.
“I remember the first time I had sex, I kept the receipt!" Groucho Marx.
Magnificent, funny, inspiring...
And then we have:

"There are no homosexuals in Iran." Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at NY's Columbia University in September, 2007, when asked about the brutal treatment of homosexuals in Iran.

"Read the Black Book of communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilize the fields." Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's newly elected Prime Minister at a rally during the 2006 election campaign.

And on a more humorous note:
“Go ahead and score like Napoleon at Waterloo… He had five great nations against him, but with strategy, clear ideas and strength, he made Waterloo his masterpiece.” Luca Luciani, Italian communications executive, while urging staffers at a conference to be inspired by the French general’s ‘victory’ over Wellington, April, 2008.  Uh, Luca... Napoleon lost that one, had his ass whipped rather badly in fact.

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