Top 131 Wartime Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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.
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
There is no working middle course in wartime.
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
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 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.'
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.
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.
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.
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
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.
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.
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.
Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
It's during wartime that innovations happen.
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.
You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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.
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.
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.
I believe my mother's immune system was harmed because of all the vaccinations she needed to visit different countries, when her body was already weakened after an impoverished wartime childhood.
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
After 1945, shamefully, we Brits seemed dedicated to punishing the heroic Poles at every turn for their wartime loyalty.
The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
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.
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.
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as they gave up the jobs and freedoms that came during wartime.
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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.
I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
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.
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system.
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
