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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:5504
AUTHOR:Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
QUOTATION:Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 133.
 
Note 1.
Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: “I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”—John Adams: Works, vol. iv. p. 8.

Live or die, sink or swim.—George Peele: Edward I. (1584?). [back]
 

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