“I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.”
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As quoted in the Evening Herald in Dublin, Ireland (February 3, 1948), reprinted in Economic Council Letter, Issue 278, Part 397 (1952), p. 1807 https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAeAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=first+rate+Fabian
1940s and later

“For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”
Source: The Law and Other Essays on Manifestation
“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

Tbilisi Courtroom Address (2021)

“Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.”
Instruction to the Prussian police (1933); as quoted in The House that Hitler Built (1937) by Stephen Henry Roberts. p. 63

Mr. Scratch
Source: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
Context: When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself — and of the best descent — for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours.

“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
'"The Treasure"
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