The First War Quotes
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I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
I'd never felt anything quite like it. For the first time in my life, everything was as it should be. Because the opposite of war ... is fucking.
— Brian K. Vaughan
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
— Michael Parenti
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.
— Joe Haldeman
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
— Aeschylus
By the war's end, non-Chileans constituted 53 percent of the first engineers; 20 percent of the second engineers;
— William F. Sater
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
— James Reston
I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
— Douglas MacArthur
First, the front lines. They are not lines, really: the war seems to be going on in many places at once. Wooded
— Margaret Atwood
First, we fight the battle, then we win the war.
— Ilona Andrews
When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
— Robert Lembke
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
— Robert Anderson
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
— William Westmoreland
In war, truth is the first casualty.
— Aeschylus
In war, the first casualty is truth.
— Aeschylus
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.
— Richard Eberhart
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
— Paulo Coelho
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In a war where both sides are wrong, the side which loses first, wins.
— Harsh Snehanshu
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. The NACA's work - more intense and
— Margot Lee Shetterly
We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening.
— Anita Diamant
Two simple ways to win a war against the world:First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
— Sun Tzu
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
— Neil Sheehan
As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
— John Grisham
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
— Al Sharpton
At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
— Randal Cremer
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
— Adam Hochschild
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
— Saxby Chambliss
First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Berg
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
— Jeff Greenfield
The first casualty in every war is truth.
— Muriel Lester
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
— Harry Elmer Barnes
President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.
— David Letterman
The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar
— Agona Apell
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
— Harry M. Collins
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
— Ernst Haeckel
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
— Alva Myrdal
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
— King Hussein
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
In the War on Drugs, shoot heroin first.
— Eric Beeny
The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
— Samantha Smith
According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.
— Nancy B. Brewer
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
— Henry Lee III
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
— Arthur Ponsonby
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
— Whittaker Chambers
Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It
— Timothy Snyder
When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.
— Joe Reyes
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
— William Westmoreland
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
— Winston Churchill
The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
— George W. Bush
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
— G. Edward Griffin
Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
— Richard Engel
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
— Nick Harkaway
In war the first casualty is the truth.
— Aeschylus
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
— John Doolittle
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
— Winston Churchill
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
— Neil Kinnock
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
— Samantha Smith
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.
— Emma Goldman
This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One
— Rick Yancey
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
— Karl Kautsky
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
— Mark Helprin
No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.
— John J. Pershing
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
— Henry David Thoreau
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
— Theodore Schultz
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
— Margaret Atwood
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
— Aslan Maskhadov
