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Mr. Hancock said he had but one life, that he would lose it for his country was written as early as 1770, about John Hancock (1737-1793). Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 â September 22, 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
If, like me, you guessed he said it in his younger years and bought the popular abridgement of his early works in a bid to find it, you will be disappointed, for that edition omits the passage that contains it altogether. Finally I have found the answer: Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston S Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, London 1898. You can read the quote in context here: see page 107. It may be that, given that the book is based on a series of letters Churchill wrote to the Daily Telegraph to describe the fighting that in fact that newspaper was the first to print it. Posted by James Barr at 1:57 PM.