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''Of Kurdistan and Luristan, and of the countries of Rumelia and Anatolia and Karaman and Wallachia and Moldavia and Hungary all together, and of many more worthy kingdoms of countries.''
''Sultan and Padishah.'' }}
* Speaking of Ottoman sultans, the letter of Sultan Mahmud IV to the Zaporogian Cossacks. And, topping that, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140119111704/http://www.thescreamonline.com/art/art7-1/repin/repin.html Cossacks' reply].
** That reply is probably a fake, though.
* Atahualpa, the final sovereign emperor of the Inca empire, had such a (possibly ahistorical) boast to the Spanish when they told him his land had been granted to them by the Pope:
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* [[Brian Blessed]] reportedly kept [[Oliver Reed]] from making trouble during the filming of ''[[Prisoner Of Honor]]'' with one of these, to the point that Reed was sober the whole time for fear of starting a fight that Brian had said he would end.
* General McAuliffe, at the Battle of the Bulge, was presented with a surrender ultimatum by the Germans. To which he said: "Nuts"
* [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york.html US Army] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055456/http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html#October%208th%201918 Corporal] [[wikipedia:Alvin York|Alvin]] [[Implacable Man|York]] had this to say about the battle in which he, alone, took fire from [[More Dakka|thirty-two German machine guns and over 100 riflemen]] [[Nigh Invulnerable|without receiving a scratch]] and returned rifle fire to kill 28 Germans [[Improbable Aiming Skills|without missing even one shot:]]
{{quote|'''York:''' I [[Funetik Aksent|jes]] couldn't miss a German's head or body at that distance. [[Boom! Headshot!|And I didn't.]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Besides, it weren't no time to miss nohow.]]}}
** When the German major who surrendered to York realized York had no other troops but a handful of terrified privates to corral his 132 prisoners:
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