“If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”
“They say truth is the first causality of war.”
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
“There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.”