The first casualty when war comes is truth…


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It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)


War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker (1862 – 1932)


In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)


The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman (b. 1958)


War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 1944)


The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson (1866 – 1945)


Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)


War is fear cloaked in courage.

-William Westmoreland (1914 – 2005)

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