I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win.
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.
War can set us back centuries, but sometimes it is necessary to correct the course of mankind.
Traders (like the Phoenicians) carried their methods as well as their wares to Europe by ship.
Anytime the western countries go to war in the Middle East, it becomes a religious war.
Americans, 150 years after the Civil War began, are still getting it wrong.
War as a whole, and each operation taken separately, are first of all mathematics and calculations.
Our entire country would be better off if the South had won the Civil War.
We would be in trouble without the United States involving [itself] in the war of Ukraine.
"We ourselves have a tradition of taking beatings, and then winning wars," said Bocker.
I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.