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Re: Safety FirstPosted by Gary Martin on June 17, 2006 In Reply to: Safety First posted by Colin Hamilton on June 17, 2006 : I'd like to find the earliest reference to the phrase 'Safety First'. I believe it may have been used by a British general in the context 'Safety first will be the death of the British Empire'. Any ideas? The earliest reference I can find is from 1873, in Cassell's Magazine - "A system that would go on the motto of safety first." I can't find anything that relates directly to the Empire. Stanley Baldwin used "safety first" as a slogan. Churchill was rather disparaging of that and said, in 1941. "But of this I am sure, that there is no less likely way of winning a war than to adhere pedantically to the maxim of "safety first."
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