#wartime

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

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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. ↗

— Will Durant

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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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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

#armed #armed forces #attend #before #forces

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ↗

— Alphonse Allais

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The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

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