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Something related. The "Last Words of the 13 Martyrs" - found it on Wikipedia with the note, that these most likely weren't their last words, according to eye witnesses they all went in silence. But where these quotes come from? Not sure, they say they were invented about three-four decades later. I don't think any of these lives in the public consciousness, never heard any of them. In school we sure don't learn them, and at home I somehow doubt it would be a regular thing to talk about the Martyrs of Arad. But here they are: Aulich Lajos: ''I served, served, I always served. With my death I will serve on. My beloved Hungarian people and homeland, I know, they understand this service." Damjanich János: We defeated death, because we were ready to face it anytime. Dessewfy Arisztid: Yesterday needed heroes, today martyrs. The duty towards my homeland commands it. Kiss Ernő: My God, will the youth of modernity whole men? Glorious saints of the Árpáds, watch over the Hungarian youth, so their hearts will be Christ's, and their lives their homeland's. Knezić Károly How curious, judge Haynau is a Christian and I am as well. Only the devil could shuffle the cards this much. Láhner György: Chirst's cross and the gallows are so similar. And my sacrifice is dwarfed by the divine sacrifice. Lázár Vilmos: Whose to blame for this fate of the Hungarian? At the base of Christ's cross matured the apostles to apostles, at the base of the gallows have to mature the Hungarian soul to revolutionary. Leiningen-Westerburg Károly: The world will wake up when sees the work of the hangman. Nagysándor József: It would be horrifying to think about passing now if I hadn't done anything in my life. I lay before my God with humility, that He made me hero, a true man, and good soldier. Poeltenberg Ernő: The enemy's furious revenge brought us here. Schweidel József: The world today is the world of Satan, where you get gallows for honor, and power for treachery. Just a real revolution, the new revolutionary people of the world can sweep away this screwed up world. Török Ignác: Soon I will stand before God's most supreme court. My life is just a tiny weight, but I know I always served only Him. Vécsey Károly: God gave me my heart and soul, which were blazing for the service of my peope and homeland. Translating these lines gave me a bit of window of thinking, and some really out of the place, especially the one attributed to Schweidel sounds like something Marxists would make up later. But since I obviously didn't know these people in person and now very little about their character I can't really tell if they would say something along these lines at any point of their lives.