In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.