“They say truth is the first causality of war.”
“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.”
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.”
“Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.”
“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.”