1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”
“Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”
Source: Goliath
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
“The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.”
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Context: Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.82
Page 23.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
As quoted by Theodore F. Wolff in The Christian Science Monitor (25 March 1985)
Posthumous quotes
[Fallon, Kevin, Cory Booker Rescues a Freezing Dog & 9 Other Things He Has Saved, https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-rescues-a-freezing-dog-and-9-other-things-he-has-saved?ref=scroll, 21 August 2018, The Daily Beast, January 26, 2013]
Via Twitter, in response to a tweet asking "Why is there a family today that is ‘too poor’ to afford breakfast?" Booker would go on to do exactly that. He later told CBS that it had been a "terrible state of human existence", and continued "I'll be honest with you. I take so much for granted, even going to Starbucks and buying a cup of coffee is more than my daily food allowance right now," as quoted in [Bailey, Holly, Cory Booker’s week on food stamps: political ambition amid the burned sweet potatoes, https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/cory-booker-week-food-stamps-political-ambition-amid-101008142--election.html, 21 August 2018, Yahoo! News, December 11, 2012]
2012
