
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Scaffold speech (1683)
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, Stanza 4 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)
"Short Memorials of some things to be cleared during my Command in the Army [1645 to 1650 A.D.]", in Stuart Tracts 1603–1693, ed. C. H. Frith, p. 353
“I must admit, just when I think I'm king,
I just begin.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
by Norodom Sihanouk in 1996
[Jason Barber, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-trumps-table-aces-sleeve, Royal trumps on the table, aces up the sleeve, 22 March 1996, 29 August 2015, Phnom Penh Post]