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YESTERYEAR
Who coined the phrase, "The first casualty of War is Truth" ? .
Mike Owen, Hebden Bridge UK
- ..."The first casualty when war comes is truth," was coined by Hiram Johnson a Republican politician from California who served in the United States Senate for nearly 30 years, beginning in the midst of World War I and concluding with his death in 1945--as it happens, on the same day the U.S. dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
Gareth, Leeds UK
- It has been attributed to both Athur Ponsonby in "Falsehood in Wartime" (1928) and US Senator Hiram Johnson in a 1918 speech. However, the true origin may be in the edition of "The Idler" magazine from 11/11/1758 which says "...among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
Andy Ward, LONDON UK
- Aeschylus.
Joy, Doha Qatar
- In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)
B Smith, Chicago Il USA
- Read "the First Casualty" by Philip Knightley - a history of deception in war - it's all in there.
John, London
- Soooooo many answers.... yet sooooo many of them are wrong, ignorant, and ethnocentrically shortsighted!
The first to coin such a phrase (and then be PLAGIARIZED by all these other people that you all tout and argue over) was a Greek writer (Dramatist - theatrical arts) named Aeschylus.
Good job proving the ignorance of the masses (especially since you can learn the etymology of this particular phrase with a little researching online these days... or by GOING TO COLLEGE and taking a dramatic literature course or two!)
"Ignorance is a disease that can never truly be cured"
James T., San Diego USA
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