Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech, (3 November 1952) as quoted in "The Graceful Loser" in TIME (23 July 1965) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,841890,00.html
“I have done this to show what an Englishman can do.”
Note found on his corpse; quoted in Bruce Chatwin, What am I Doing Here?
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Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
¿Y para qué debo arrepentirme de lo que he hecho, si no puedo dejar de hacer lo que hago, que es lo que he hecho?
Voces (1943)
“What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?”
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004
2000s
Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author
1990s and later, "The Institutional Structure of Production" (1992)
“Let them do what I have done.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) American businessman, philanthropist, and tycoon
Often attributed, but without a contemporary source, as a remark on being asked to contribute to charity for the poor. See for example Commodore (2009) by Edward J. Renehan
“Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do.”
John Basedow TV Health and Fitness Personality
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 49]
“Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.”
James MacDonald (1960) American pastor
Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 98
