Wartime Quotes

Wartime Quote of the day

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

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.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

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

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

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

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

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

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

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

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

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

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

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

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

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

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

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

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.

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

Somebody's got to win this war, right?

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.