Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant 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
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
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. — Winston Churchill 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
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
As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of… — connie willis Copy Share Image
God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
