Quotes About Casualty

As California senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Rubio became just another dispiriting casualty of Trump's moral slaughter of the Republican Party. He was another in the parade of leaders willing to discard every principle they once held for the purpose of staying in office.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn't even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. "I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam?

The truth is a story. The truth is a habit. The truth is a compromise. The truth is a casualty. The truth died long ago.

C'è un modo corretto di usare le parole e c'è un modo corretto di comportarsi con gli altri. […] le parole sono più facili da controllare rispetto ai comportamenti. […] Credo che sia questo a farmi paura: la casualità di tutto. Persone che per te potrebbero essere importanti, ti passano accanto e se ne vanno. E tu fai altrettanto. Come si fa a saperlo?