#wartime

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

— Jose Bergamin

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The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. ↗

— Francis Biddle

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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

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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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

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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ↗

— Alphonse Allais

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