Wartime Quotes

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

Truth, She, Lies

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin

Later, Paid, Wars

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Peace, Fools, Fit

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

May, Become, Hatred

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Wanted, Last, President

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
Ann Coulter

Nonsense, Cute, Liberals

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin

Drunk, Coward, Goes

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie

Past, Political, Lives

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Country, Working, Fighting

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Power, Result, Alcoholic

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Claud Cockburn

Hair, Grow, Natural

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Russel Honore

Crisis, America, Nation

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Bill Kristol

Made, Defense, Needless

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Alphonse Allais

Military, Statistics, Mortality

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
Francis Biddle

President, Bothered, Greatly

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. Mead

Nation, Ourselves, Interests

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
John Pople

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
Shinzo Abe

Women, Sympathy, Heart

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Edmund H. North

Emotional, Getting, Painful

'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
Ben Macintyre

Best, Game, Book

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