War Quotes
Two of the best-known lines about war are flagged as misattributed, and both stories are worth knowing.
“In war, truth is the first casualty” is credited to Aeschylus, and sometimes to the US senator Hiram Johnson. It is not in his speeches. The first recorded use Wikiquote found is by Philip Snowden in July 1916, introducing a book by E. D. Morel, and he wrote “it has been said”, so it was probably already going around. Samuel Johnson made the same point in The Idler in 1758, about “the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages”.
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war” is credited to Homer, and it is a misquotation of the Iliad (Book 13). In the original, most men prefer those things to war. It is the Trojans who can never get enough of fighting.
I don't believe in violence and war is not the solution to the problems that face this country.
It seemed to us the sinister reversion to the war system would be at the cost of democracy.
Literary epochs come and go but this wave seems to have frozen in the cold war.
Indeed the judiciary is a critical component in the war against corruption.
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless with a terrible fury all its own.
Rightists do not represent humanity,they cause division and incitement to civil war.
The war's red flames,
Charging Tarleton, proud Cornwallis, navies moving on the James.
After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobles by her scars.
The winning of the war is the only question before us. Nothing else matters.
Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman,
Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land."
It is here that your war, it is here that you have to win it.