What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

-Diaz, Porfirio
'Each Bullet Has Got Its Commission'. First published1803.

  Iherebycommissionyouto carryout all thepreparations withregardto†atotal solutionoftheJewishquestion, in those territories of Europe that are under German influence.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Directive to the Nazi High Command, 31  Jul, quoted in William Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1962).