Winnie was a woman of her times, there was a war and she too was a soldier.
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.
If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus.
Good leadership can mean the difference between war and peace, between development and stagnation.
Anti-communism has been the U.S.'s powerful pro-war tool since 1945.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.