All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais Copy Share Image
“It's about more than us, now, can't you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things...some things just have… — Natasha Farrant Copy Share Image
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
“The toys can help in the battle." "Mother Ginger? I doubt it!" "Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Ana—Ana, listen to me.' A shot. 'We're going to play a game, okay? We're going to trick the guards.' A shot. 'They're… — Sara Nović Copy Share Image
“The Price of Neglect A PUBLIC THAT’S illiterate about the conflicts of the past can easily find itself confused during wartime. Without… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Tommy and I put on a radio play to entertain everyone while they unpacked their cookies. It was about a girl who… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“What more do they want? She asks this seriously, as if there's a real conversion factor between information and lives. Well, strange… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Dear Mr. Beard, On the radio last spring, President Roosevelt said that each and every one of us here on the home… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
