Ward: "Even if a man were to make a new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care."
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.
But, unfortunately, the war is not over. The terror continues.
We are now at war with the whole world, as it was in the Great Patriotic War.
The war displaced my whole family and my children never healed from the horror they felt.
""I am a woman and I do not love war, but rather than accepting this (colonialism) I prefer war.”""
For anyone living in Paris, the Algerian war was inescapable.
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons.
Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.