“I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.”
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 3 (p. 34)
upon signing the Treaty of Greenville http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/little-turtle-at-the-treaty-of-greenville.htm, August 3, 1795
Quotes from Michikinikwa
“I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.”
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 3 (p. 34)
“I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.”
Speech to the House of Lords http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108314 rejecting the Maastricht Treaty (7 June 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Context: Fifty years ago, science took for granted that the rate of acceleration could not last. The world forgets quickly, but even today the habit remains of founding statistics on the faith that consumption will continue nearly stationary. Two generations, with John Stuart Mill, talked of this stationary period, which was to follow the explosion of new power. All the men who were elderly in the forties died in this faith, and other men grew old nursing the same conviction, and happy in it; while science, for fifty years, permitted, or encouraged, society to think that force would prove to be limited in supply. This mental inertia of science lasted through the eighties before showing signs of breaking up; and nothing short of radium fairly wakened men to the fact, long since evident, that force was inexhaustible.
To Leon Goldensohn, after being asked if he felt any resentment toward Hitler (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“5120. 'Tis the last Feather, that breaks the Horse’s Back.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)