Wartime Quotes - Page 3

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Luxury, Decision, Judgement

  1963 Reply to a Boston University official who had criticized Truman's use of the atomic bomb. Truman Library archives, 23 Sep.

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• 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.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Appreciation, Mean

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

  David Greenberg

  President, Liberty, Civil Liberties

  "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• 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.

  Karl Donitz

  War, Practice, Navy

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• The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

  Russel Honore

  Military, Fire, Years

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Men, Murder, Stills

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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

  War, Men, Age

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

  Joseph Sobran

  Erosion, Together, Expansion

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• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, Debt, Emergencies

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.564, Penguin UK

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• In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

  William Rehnquist

  Order, Government, Important

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• In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

  Ron Paul

  Sacrifice, People, Liberty

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• 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.

  Zainab Salbi

  Target, Violence, Injustice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Military, Fool

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• George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

  Jeff Greenfield

  White, House, Dwight Eisenhower

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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

  Bullying, Children, Cities

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Two, Years

  "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.

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

  Ann Coulter

  Cute, Kind, Threatening

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• 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.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Want, Violence, Prose

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Home, School, Reality

  "Sex and wheels: Zadie Smith on JG Ballard's Crash" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2014.

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• Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

  John Piper

  Prayer, War, Darkness

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Home, Men

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• Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, War, Mean

  "Death: The Final Stage of Growth". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 5, 1974.

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