#wartime

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

— Winston Churchill

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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

#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

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

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

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

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