Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
As quoted in "The bogey of forced conversions", in The Hindu (26 October 2008) http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/26/stories/2008102650150500.htm
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Speech (July 17, 1850); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 437
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech in Saltaire, Yorkshire (25 February 1974), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 709
1970s
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Russell Harty Plus, ITV (1973), excerpted in "Odd Man Out", BBC TV profile by Michael Cockerell transmitted on 11 November 1995
1970s
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
September 1924. Mahadev Desai, Day to Day with Gandhi, Volume 4, p. 165.
1920s
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Through A Glass, Darkly (1918)
Context: So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness
What the objects were I wrought,
But as God rules o'er our bickerings
It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again, once more.
“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”
‘Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
