John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Philips v. Bury (1694), 2 T. R. 358.
Senate Confirmation Hearing, reported in " Elena Kagan under fire from Republicans http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/29/elena-kagan-barack-obama-supreme-court", The Guardian (29 June 2010).
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Philips v. Bury (1694), 2 T. R. 358.
“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
A Poem to His Majesty (1695), l. 21.
“My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them.”
Harry Belafonte (1927) American singer
"Pass The Torch: Harry Belafonte" at DVRepublic (2005) http://www.dvrepublic.com/view.php?stid=11 <br class="br">Context: My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
“If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) American writer
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter IV The Spiritual Cabinet
Wu Cherng-dean (1957) Taiwanese politician
Source: Wu Cherng-dean (2018) cited in " 6 Km From China, Taiwan's Kinmen Charts Its Own Path https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/6-km-from-china-taiwans-kinmen-charts-its-own-path/" on The Diplomat, 4 September 2018.
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) American politician
Comments on his final election defeat (11 August 1835) Ch. 2; in Dr. Swan's Prescriptions for Job-Itis (2003) by Dennis Swanberg and Criswell Freeman, p. 45, part of this seems to have become paraphrased as "Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks." No earlier publication of this version has been located.
Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
Source: 1900s, Notes d'un Peintre (Notes of a Painter) (1908), pp. 409-410