Peacetime Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must…
— Glen E. Morrell
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Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need…
— Mary Ruwart
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Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny…
— D. James Kennedy
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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…
— Vasily Grossman
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The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us,…
— Larry Kramer
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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…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the…
— Alasdair Gray
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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
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I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
— Jose Bergamin
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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
— George Wald
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Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.
— Paul Yingling
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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
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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
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
— Edmund H. North
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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
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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…
— James F. Byrnes
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Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
— Harry S. Truman
Who Wrote These Peacetime Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 27 Peacetime Quotes, led by these top contributors: