Last recorded words, to his grand-children and his servants, as quoted in The National Preacher (1845) by Austin Dickinson, p. 192.
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Statement shortly before his death, as quoted in Life of Andrew Jackson (1860) by James Parton, p. 679.
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Address in Pocatello, Idaho (5 October 1911).
George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician
New Morality. Compare: "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies", attributed to Maréchal Villars, when taking leave of Louis XIV.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Alice Cary (1820–1871) American writer
"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.
“Losers always meet with mockery, Heaven sides with the fortunate.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot:
sælden pflihtær dem half got.
Bk. 6, st. 289, line 11; p. 151.
Parzival
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
“What do you want, that I should start crying, ‘Oh, crisis, we have a crisis!’ Do you want that?”
Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
When a journalist asked whether she believed the election had thrust the country deeper into political instability. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html (January 15, 2014)
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 633.
