A Quote by Harry Elmer Barnes
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
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Truth is always the first casualty of war.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.
Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
In war the first casualty is the truth.
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
The first casualty in every war is truth.
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
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