A Quote by Hiram Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson

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Truth War Casualty First

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Hiram Johnson
American - Politician
September 2, 1866 - August 6, 1945

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

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.

Peter Maurer

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Aeschylus

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Aeschylus

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

The first casualty in every war is truth.

Muriel Lester

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

Winston Churchill

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Boake Carter

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.

Boake Carter

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

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.

Alexander Cockburn

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.