“At last, my friends, I am come amongst you. And I am come…unmuzzled.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the electors of South Lancashire. (18 July 1865)
1860s
“When last comes to last,
I have little power:
I am merely an urn. I hold the bone-sap of myself,
and watch the marrow burn.
When last comes to last,
I have little strength:
I am only a tool. I work its work; and in its hands
I am the fool.
When last comes to last,
I have little life.
I am simply a deed: an action done while courage holds:
a seed.”
Healer, The Power that Preserves, the third book of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
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Novelist 1947Related quotes
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8
“May I look on thee when my last hour comes; may I hold thy hand, as I sink, in my dying clasp.”
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,<br/>Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
Tibullus (-50–-19 BC) poet and writer (0054-0019)
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,
Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
Bk. 1, no. 1, line 59.
Variant translation: May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and dying may I hold you with my weakening hand.
Elegies
“I am the only Unicorn there is? The Last?”
Peter S. Beagle book The Last Unicorn
The Unicorn, after overhearing hunters declare her to be the last unicorn.
The Last Unicorn (1982 film)
Context: I am the only Unicorn there is? The Last? … That cannot be. Why would I be the last? What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished. We do not vanish. … There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We are as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not vanish. … Am I truly the last?
Fred Hampton (1948–1969) African-American activist
"I am a Revolutionary" Full speech at marxists.org https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/audio/fred-hampton.wav. <br class="br">Context: So we say—we always say in the that they can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pigs. You’ve got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers are doing here. That’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Remark (undated) to William Temple, quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 383
“This is the last of Earth! I am content.”
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Last words (21 February 1848)