“I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself.”

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
Context: I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

Hung Hsiu-chu (2016) cited in " KMT Chairwoman Hung would ‘sell her house’ to pay KMT workers’ salaries http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/10/09/2003656809" on Taipei Times, 9 October 2016

"I do not vote for Bresso even under torture" http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/non-voto-bresso-nemmeno-sotto-tortura.html, Februry 21, 2010.

The Cyclops (c.424-23 BC)

"Love each man according to his contribution in the struggle. Do not seek friends; seek comrades-in-arms.
The Saviors of God (1923)

Said to the Duke of Devonshire in 1756, quoted in Horace Walpole, Memoirs of King George II (Yale University Press, 1985), III, p. 1.

Some historians have opined that the assassination quip was in response to an assassination threat Lincoln had been notified about earlier.
1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)

Song lyrics, Ophelia (1998), My Skin

Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 24
The Vocation of Man (1800), Doubt