My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.
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.
How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
The art of war, which I take to be the highest perfection of human knowledge.
"Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it."
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.