“I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, Chapter V
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.”
As quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 171
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Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
“I am all right — I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)
Context: I am all right — I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this speech.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem
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Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828) British politician
History of the War in the Peninsula, Under Napoleon, Volume 1, p. 122
“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”
Ben Bova (1932) American science fiction and science writer
Source: Millennium
Miguel Pro (1891–1927) Mexican Jesuit priest and martyr
Source: Blessed Miguel Pro Juarez https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-miguel-pro-juarez-397 (November 23, 1927)
“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891). <br class="br">Other works