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
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Bill Kristol
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Edmund H. North
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
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
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
George H. Mead
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
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
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Alphonse Allais
The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
Francis Biddle
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
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
Ann Coulter
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
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