Today we are at war not only with Ukraine and the Ukrainian army, but with the collective West.
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.
This is our war against absolute Satanism and not at all with Ukraine.
War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.
Migrants are human ammunition used in a war bigger than us and them.
Charles understood better than his father or his adversary that the chief material of war was money.
So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war.
It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither.
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
There is an undeclared Cold War underway now in the IT sector.