Wartime Quotes

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

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

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

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

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

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

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.

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

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

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

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

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

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.

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

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

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.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.