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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Pericles
Mistake, Design, Enemy
Speech to the Athenians, 432 b.c.; cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.