Why Did the Historical Chicken Cross the Road?

I just got a clever little list of what famous people would say was the reason the chicken crossed the road, things like Barak Obama saying the chicken wated change, real change, and was going to get change, Jerry Falwell because the chicken is gay and that's why they call it "the other side" and we must guard against the chicken's sinful influence, and Bill Clinton denying that he went across the road with the chicken...

So what would some historical figures  say?  Try these on for size and add your own, if you can come up with better ones!

Why did the historical chicken cross the road?

Alexander the Great - It came with me to help me cut through that Gordian knot with its beak.

Sigmund Freud - To confront its feelings about its mother.

Oscar Wilde - A chicken who crosses the road is like someone who borrows money from you.  Once it is on the other side, you never see it again.

Joan of Arc - St. Margaret and the Archangel Michael told it to.

Harold Godwinson - Damned Norman chickens just can't stay put.

Louis Braille - What chicken?
Napoleon Bonaparte - It was that or coq au vin tout de suite!

Jack the Ripper - I'll tell you after I follow it into this dark alley.

Julius Caesar - I don't know, but I do know why I crossed the Rubicon.

James I of England - Like it says in my book about demonology, it was bewitched!

George Washington - What street was it?  Delaware ?

Nostradamus - Let me check its star chart.

Richard III - Who let it out of the Tower?

Lewis and Clark - Who cares?  It was one little road.  We crossed the whole damned continent.

Sacajawea - Tell me about it!

Your turn!