#wartime

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

#increases #military #mortality #shown #statistics

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

— Jose Bergamin

#coward #drunk #gets #goes #man

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

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

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

— Bill Kristol

#made #needless #say #secretaries #wartime

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

#alcoholic beverages #appreciation #begin #beverages #clear

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

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#bothered #constitution #greatly #president #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

#compelled #continuous #duplicity #even #grow

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. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress