Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. — Edmund H. North Copy Share Image
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on… — Karl Donitz Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For… — Chester Nez Copy Share Image
People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“When war is "over," it is never simply "over." The first war takes place during wartime. The second war, the far longer… — Clarrisa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' fathers had been in the war - either as soldiers or in some other capacity in the military.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...]… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an… — David Irving Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person… — William Powell Copy Share Image
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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