#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

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

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

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

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#comes #later #paid #wars #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

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