The oft quoted and paraphrased saying “the first casualty of war is truth” has been attributed to Warren Hiram Johnson, an isolationist Republican Senator who used it in a speech in 1917, the year that America entered the First World War.
The Subtle Art of Propaganda
The oft quoted and paraphrased saying “the first casualty of war is truth” has been attributed to Warren Hiram Johnson, an isolationist Republican Senator who used it in a speech in 1917, the year that America entered the First World War.