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“Truth," it has been said, "is the first casualty of war.”

Introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916. p. ix books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=gQFIAAAAIAAJ&q=casualty. p. xiii in the 3rd edition 1918 archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/truthwar00more#page/n17/mode/2up (cf. Aeschylus#Misattributed) <br class="br">Hiram Johnson is often credited with this statement, or something similar. However, Snowden's use appears to have predated those of Johnson while being more consistent with the now-common, "Truth is the first casualty of war."

“I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party…this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.”

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Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

BBC radio broadcast (17 October 1931)

“It is no part of my job as Chancellor of the Exchequer to put before the House of Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.”

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Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

To the House of Commons (30 July 1924, H.C. Deb. Vol. 176, Cols 2091-2)

“I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.”

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Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

The Daily Herald (15 October 1928)