26 Wartime Quotes for You to Enjoy

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. Walter Cronkite

Constitution Enemy Giving Aid Charge Lead Comfort Wartime Treason

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

War Later Bill Paid Wars Wartime

Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day. Michael Ashcroft

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Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees. Robert Winston

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

Life My Life Books Were Child Wartime

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You Other Polarization Issues Wartime Peacetime Need

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

Made Needless Defense Secretaries Say Wartime

It's during wartime that innovations happen. Bill Pullman

Innovations Happen Wartime

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize. Douglas Brinkley

Rule Cronkite Never Had Reporters Golden Golden Rule Wartime

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.' Floyd Skloot

Love War Art Love Story Hell Back Characters Student Principal Traditional Been End Timely American Story Wartime Core

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. Francis Biddle

Constitution President Bothered Greatly Any Wartime

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight. J. G. Ballard

Life Home Reality School Rest Stage Took One Of The Things Could Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Comfortable Overnight Where Experiences Wartime Lives Things Set

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

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

President Wanted Wartime Thing Last

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes. Martin Jacques

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Disability in the Middle East is viewed through a different lens because you're in wartime countries where it's much more mainstream, so I was just never 'other'd. Maysoon Zayid

You East More Through Disability Never Mainstream Countries Because Just Middle Where Different Middle East Lens Much Viewed Wartime

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday. Michael Ashcroft

War Birthday Father Made Before Month Promoted Colonial February Recovery Had He His Survived Officer Died Full Fortunate Captain Wartime Injuries Eventually Satisfying Servicemen Career

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' Muriel Rukeyser

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

Soldiers Terrible Surprise Us Should Wartime Things

Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists. Pat Buchanan

War History CIA World Own Defeat Late Our France Cash Had Part Been Italy After Elections Communists Interfering Who Wartime Fascists Resistance World War World War II

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs. Paul Di Filippo

War Technology Survival Will Field Biology Medicine Enormous AIDS Way Take Advent Steps Forced Sort Sheer Conditions Same Just Created Really Hard Wartime

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so. Richard Norton Smith

Think Presidency President Presidents Unpopular Born More He Look Because Lincoln Saint His Mount Than Patron Patron Saint Wartime

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