
Testament (1969)
1960's
Statement written in his final days, as quoted in Simón Bolívar : A Story of Courage (1941) by Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson Waugh, p. 320; These are sometimes said to have been repeated many times while he was dying, and to be his last words.
Variant translations or reports:
America is ungovernable; those who served the revolution have plowed the sea.
As quoted in Man, State, and Society in Latin American History (1972) by Sheldon B. Liss and Peggy K. Liss, p. 133
Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.
We have plowed the sea.
I plowed furrows in the ocean.
I have plowed the sea. Our America will fall into the hands of vulgar tyrants.
Testament (1969)
1960's
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
According to the Jefferson Library, this is misattributed to Jefferson http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Those_who_hammer_their_guns_into_plows.
Misattributed
“5968. You must plow with such Oxen as you have.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Which serves for cynosure
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.”
First Week, Seventh Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Speech to University students (1959)
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: The question to be tried by you is whether a man has the right to express his honest thought; and for that reason there can be no case of greater importance submitted to a jury. And it may be well enough for me, at the outset, to admit that there could be no case in which I could take a greater — a deeper interest. For my part, I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips — to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain.
A man has a right to work with his hands, to plow the earth, to sow the seed, and that man has a right to reap the harvest. If we have not that right, then all are slaves except those who take these rights from their fellow-men.
Page 167
Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On Islam and the Islamic Revolution
Misc Quotes
Original: (fr) Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?
"My War Memories, 1914–1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919