Hindmost

To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others. ❋ Various (N/A)

But I say to you: Each for all, and the hindmost is your charge. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Behind them at a distance of several rods came two others, holding precisely the same relative positions, while the rest were strung along over the prairie, until it looked as if the hindmost was a third of a mile distant. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

Those at the receiving end viz the powerless, the hindmost are the ones the devil takes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For who are the weakest, the "hindmost," but the babies! ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

Backed by the 1%, the Wall Street elite and the captains of industry who destroyed the economy but are deeply hurt and offended when anyone tries to hold them accountable for it, these Republicans are hell-bent are creating an economy based on the ideas of Ayn Rand and Gordon Gekko, where greed is good, generosity and kindness are weaknesses, and we are taught that it is everyone for themselves and devil take the hindmost. ❋ Mike Lux (2011)

This is the key-note to LAISSEZ FAIRE, -- everybody for himself and devil take the hindmost. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They have to know that in a world where things like fire departments and police departments are private businesses, said services will go to people who can afford them, and devil take the hindmost. ❋ Andrew Reinbach (2011)

Like Dick would say, “The devil take the hindmost.” ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

Much easier for two elites to unite on their true common ground: aggrandize their own money and power, and the populations they rule take the hindmost. ❋ Ian Fletcher (2011)

LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If government were seen acting in advance to protect its own claims in a bank failure, and devil take the hindmost, it would have a powerful effect on the thinking of the hindmost. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

"Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only way to resolve this writer's dilemma is to say as much of what you think as you can, and, to coin a phrase, let the devil take the hindmost. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2011)

Ever the cavalryman, Patton believed in the devil taking the hindmost and showed scant regard for protection of his advancing flanks. ❋ Michael Burleigh (2011)