Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
Greek tragic dramatist
In war, truth is the first casualty
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1. The Nazis called the Holocaust itself the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.2. In extermination camps gassing was called Special treatment.
she was a abolitionist
When people who weren't sympathetic to the Nazis realized what was really happening to so many innocents. 2.5 years after the war started was when the truth finally started to dawn on them.
Frederick Douglass
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It is just one of those Latin proverbs not attributed to anyone in particular. Meaning 'truth conquers all'
M. A. O'Connell has written: 'Truth, the first casualty' -- subject(s): Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Murder), Police misconduct
the truth behind something is the motivation for an action.
This is the phrase: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Stuart Scott ESPN analyst. Actually Stuart Scott took this phrase from Jack Buck, former announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals.
it means truth is more important than modesty
I would like to say, as an Englishman, of course not. But the truth is different. And the first casualty of War is the Truth. However I think it bears testimony, then & now, that Britain has a reputation to fighting within the rules by & large, I am sure there are exceptions....
"Truth and lies" is veritas et mendacii in Latin. Roman authors also used the phrase verum et falsum, "the true and the false".
it just means that u swear to tell the real truth
In Irish it is FÉITHLEOG FÍRINNE.
It means fiction can be weird but it's fake, the truth Is real and can be just as strange