Gavrilo Princip

There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.

Gavrilo Princip (Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип) (25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Yugoslav nationalist, famous for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914. The assassinations set off a chain of events that led to World War I. He had Tuberculosis and had come from a poor family, which, combined with the fact that he was a Nationalist, made him kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914.

Quotes

• There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
  • Said to the prison warden on being moved to another prison; as quoted by Borivoje Jevtic (1914) [1]
• Our shades shall tread Vienna's streets, roaming the courtyard, striking fear in noble hearts.
  • Written on the wall of his prison cell shortly before death

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Gavrilo Princip on Wikipedia