Quote of the Day: Pancho Villa By Barry Barnett on August 19, 2007 Folk hero Doroteo Arango Arambula a/k/a Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1878-1923). On July 23, 1923, as life seeped from the holes that an assassin’s bullets made, Villa said: It can’t end like this. Tell them I said something. Barry Barnett Quote our feed.