“I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.”

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

To Col. Sam Fulkerson, who reported on the weariness of their troops and suggested that they should be given an hour or so to rest from a forced march in the night. (24 May 1862); as quoted in Mighty Stonewall (1957) by Frank E. Vandiver, p. 250
Context: I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow. The line of hills southwest of Winchester must not be occupied by the enemy's artillery. My own must be there and in position by daylight. … You shall however have two hours rest.

1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)

Reputation
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

Source: Alias Grace (1996)

Cagliostro: the Splendour And Misery of a Master of Magic by W.R.H. Trowbridge, (William Rutherford Hayes), (August 1910) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trowbridge%2c%20W%2e%20R%2e%20H%2e%20%28William%20Rutherford%20Hayes%29%2c%201866%2d1938

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 135.

"What Can I Do About It?"

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence