Better to be a dog in peacetime that a man in wartime.
Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
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
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
The Army's new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure... but don't worry, we're not looking to pick fights these days. For a country that had paid so dear a price for its recent military buccaneering, the message ...
In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
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.
No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again
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.
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.
In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
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.
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.
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.
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...
