Die Provisional IRA hat es nach ihrem gescheiterten Attentat auf die britische Premierministerin Margaret Thatcher 1984 so formuliert: „Heute hatten wir Pech, aber denkt dran: Wir müssen nur einmal Glück haben.
As the Provisional Irish Republican Army put it after its failed effort to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”