#wartime

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

— Edmund H. North

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

— Will Durant

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

— George H. Mead

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

— Bill Kristol

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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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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

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

— Ann Coulter

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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

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