You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
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.
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam.
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.
I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
The Cold War was all about who could build the biggest refrigerator, wasn’t it?
As if he needed me to say "Slam Dunk" to go to war with Iraq.
The Russians have learned much in this hard war in which the Finns fought with heroism.
The wars ended when there were no longer two societies left to fight against each other.
"When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war."