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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that is a great leveller.
I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system.
You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.
It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
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.
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.
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.
After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin's empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.
Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.
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.
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
'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.'
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.
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.
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.
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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.