#wartime

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 resemble a wig. ↗

— Claud Cockburn

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

— Alphonse Allais

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The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. ↗

— Francis Biddle

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. ↗

— Ann Coulter

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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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