“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“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.”
“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”
“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
“This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.”
“They say truth is the first causality of war.”