Aeschylus War Quotations

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

In war the first casualty is the truth.