#wartime

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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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 to be done. ↗

— Natasha Farrant

#love-story #resistance #starcrossed #wartime #love

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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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 in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. ↗

— Francis Biddle

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