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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. -- George Wald
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. -- Edmund H. North
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened. -- Francoise Gilot
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. -- Gijs de Vries
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
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. -- Jose Bergamin
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went. -- Phil Klay
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. -- R. Lee Ermey
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. -- James F. Byrnes
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then. -- Joe Haldeman
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country. -- Steve Truglia
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple. -- Ben Horowitz
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward. -- Charles Duhigg
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off. -- Charles Duhigg
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. -- Phil Klay
I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.' -- Ross Kemp
Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment. -- Harry S. Truman
For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war. -- Karl Donitz
Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat. -- Paul Yingling
It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage. -- David Galula
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. -- Susan Faludi
War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. -- Erwin Rommel
In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict. -- Widad Akrawi
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. -- Margaret Thatcher
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. -- Shelby Steele
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. -- Jacqueline Winspear
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence. -- Janet Malcolm
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
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. -- Mitt Romney
Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary -- George Orwell
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers. -- Vasily Grossman
He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day -- Amanda Hodgkinson
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