Blair, don't send our young prince to your catastrophic illegal war to make it look plausible.
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.
Citizens of Israel, we are at war – not in an operation, not in rounds – at war.
The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing.
"He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war."
"Wars are generally a rich man's affair and a poor man's fight.”
A religious war, the vilest form an essentially vile business can take.
War is not only a contest of strength, but also a test of morality and ethics.
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?
A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.