# Iconic Moments in History, in Just a Few Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290 "2023-06-10T15:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/21 "2023-06-10T18:29:12Z")
“Peccavi.” (Not our @peccavi, obviously. But an iconic bit in History that appeals to the Classical training in me. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/22 "2023-06-10T18:48:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Peccavi.” > > (Not our @peccavi, obviously. But an iconic bit in History that appeals to the Classical training in me Attributed to General Napier, upon taking Sind (India) against orders (the Latin translation of peccavi is “I have sinned”), but, unfortunately: > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Napier) > The true author of the pun was, however, Englishwoman [Catherine Winkworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Winkworth), who submitted it to _Punch_, which then printed it as a factual report. Later, Napier made several comments on the Sindh adventure to the effect of: “If this was a piece of rascality, it was a noble piece of rascality!” In adopting this as my SDMB name, I have subscribed to the philosophy of Maxwell Scott: > **Ransom Stoddard** : You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott? > **Maxwell Scot** t: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/23 "2023-06-10T18:53:24Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Peccavi.” > > (Not our @peccavi, obviously. But an iconic bit in History that appeals to the Classical training in me. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Napier didn’t actually send such a message, but rather it was a suggestion by a schoolgirl to a newspaper (?_Punch_ magazine) that he should have said it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/24 "2023-06-10T18:55:20Z")
I think I’ve heard that myself recently. Maybe just 2 post ago. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/25 "2023-06-10T19:02:11Z")
Ahem. I was double-checking my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/26 "2023-06-10T19:11:46Z")
“J’Accuse…!” ETA: I hope that doesn’t need a translation. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/27 "2023-06-10T19:16:11Z")
“Hold my beer” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/28 "2023-06-10T19:48:40Z")
Tora Tora Tora! ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/29 "2023-06-10T20:34:37Z")
“Not a step back!” also known “Not one step backwards” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/30 "2023-06-10T20:39:30Z")
“It’s a free concert from now on!” “There are no words.” “It’s outta there!!! It’s gone!!! It’s 715!!!” “We find for the defendant, Orenjal…Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder…” “_beep_” ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/31 "2023-06-10T20:55:26Z")
“La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas!” altough Cambrone said in later interviews he didn’t said it, since he surrendered and didn’t die… but his following famous word was indeed said… ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/32 "2023-06-10T22:08:37Z")
_C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est de la folie_ (“It is magnificent, but it is not war: it is madness”). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/33 "2023-06-10T22:14:26Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > “He is moving like a tremendous machine!” 50 years and one day ago… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/34 "2023-06-10T22:44:28Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > “Oh, the humanity!” “Iceberg, Right Ahead!” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/35 "2023-06-10T23:34:58Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > > “He is moving like a tremendous machine!” > > 50 years and one day ago… Yup, watched it again today and choked up again. At least this time wasn’t like watching it live on TV, when I leaped from my chair and screamed “RUN! RUN! RUN!” all through the stretch drive. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/36 "2023-06-11T11:46:30Z")
“Okay Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/37 "2023-06-11T13:59:37Z")
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/38 "2023-06-11T14:07:11Z")
“Fourscore and seven years ago,… .” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/39 "2023-06-11T15:21:14Z")
“I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received” “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time” "Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years. " ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290/40 "2023-06-16T23:14:19Z")
“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.” “You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.” “I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-moments-in-history-in-just-a-few-words/985290.md?page=3)