Casualties Quotes

• In war, truth is the first casualty.

  Aeschylus

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

  Peace, War, Firsts

  1917 Speech, US Senate.

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• I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

  Kevin Costner

  Dream, Reality, People

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• truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Truth, Firsts, Tyranny

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• Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

  Louise Slaughter

  Honesty, Integrity, Government

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• All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Communication, Thought Provoking

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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  Alan Greenspan

  Happiness, Careers, Leaving

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.

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• We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

  Paul Cellucci

  Mass Destruction, Organization, Iraq

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• I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Ideas, Bloodshed

  "Senator McCain, Please Define 'Free Nation'" by Vanessa Edwards Foster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2008.

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• The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Numbers, September 11, Bears

  "New York's Governor And Mayor of New York City Address Concerns of the Damage". News conference, New York, transcripts.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

  Al Capone

  War, World, Lists

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Revenge, Patriotic, Past

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

  Barack Obama

  People, Risk, Scope

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, War

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• The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

  Ugo Cavallero

  War, Cost, Development

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• The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

  Iain Banks

  Usual, Tactics, Sides

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.

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• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Taken, Years

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• The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Receiving, Reinforcement, Retreat

  "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.

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• I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Korea, Giving

  "Ann Coulter: Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"". www.mediamatters.org. January 12, 2005.

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• I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Terror, War On Terror

  "Ex-Bush Team Acclimates to Private Life" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2009.

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Peace, War, Anarchy

  "Falsehood in Wartime". Book by Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 1928.

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• Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

  Richard E. Grant

  Challenges, Ongoing, Fields

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