#wartime

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

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

— Winston Churchill

#attended #bodyguard #lies #precious #she

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

— Ann Coulter

#idiocy #instinctive #kind #liberals #life-threatening

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

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #consumption #created #direct

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

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#last #president #thing #wanted #wartime

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fools #only #peace #services #wartime