Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Responding to an assertion that his support for a ban on nuclear testing would probably cost him votes, as quoted in As We Knew Adlai : The Stevenson Story by Twenty-two Friends (1966) by Edward P. Doyle, p. 185
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (24 January 1941), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 287
Later life
“We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Explaining his dismissal of the imam assigned to the Turkish Grand National Assembly; as quoted in Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography (2011) by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, p. 145 http://books.google.com/books?id=dNFhZzug6tMC&pg=PA145
Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of Austria
Ich habe im Krieg nichts anderes getan als hunderttausende Österreicher auch, nämlich meine Pflicht als Soldat erfüllt. <br class="br"> Waldheim Affair http://derstandard.at/2000031874110/Ich-habe-im-Krieg-nichts-anderes-getan-als-meine-Pflicht, 9 March 1986
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Concepts
“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
Vince Flynn book Executive Power
Source: Executive Power
“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist
The first number of L'Ordine Nuovo, edited by Gramsci, appeared in 1921 with this motto of Ferdinand Lassalle on the first page. It is often misattributed to Gramsci.
Misattributed
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Falsehood, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
A letter home, included in Joyce Kilmer, Poems, Essays and Letters (1918) edited by Robert Holliday
