
“All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”
Fiction, Distress (1995)
Personal motto, on the title page.
Variants: Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.
As quoted in David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874) by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, who indicates that he also often used simply "Go ahead!" as a battle cry, and general assertion of determination.
Unsourced variants: Be always sure you are right — then go ahead.
Be sure you are right — then go ahead.
Always be sure you are right — then go ahead.
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
“All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”
Fiction, Distress (1995)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“I'm always wrong
But you're never right”
Looking Up (2009)
Lyrics
Can't Not
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
Source: Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
“Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.”
“I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
CNN-Telemundo Republican debate http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-carlson-6454d89c-dc90-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6-20160226-story.html (25 February 2016)
2010s, 2016, February