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66 Wartime quotes by 60 unique authors

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. — Jose Bergamin
In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious. — Adolf Hitler
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
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… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that… — C.S. Lewis
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,… — Janice Y. K. Lee
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… — Claud Cockburn
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. — Edmund H. North
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments'… — Elie Wiesel
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the… — Christopher Isherwood
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. — Philip Caputo
The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime. — Manfred von Richthofen
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us. — Nick Flynn
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard
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… — Russel Honore
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. — William Kristol
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in… — Ben Macintyre
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. — Harry S. Truman
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. — David Greenberg
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. — Benjamin Franklin
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their… — Jeff Greenfield
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. — Ann Coulter
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. — Benjamin Disraeli
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant

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