The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror and they should never be forgotten.

It is well known that in war the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

My father was in the First World War.

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton the founder of this newspaper insisted on it.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18 so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.