#peacetime

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#coward #drunk #gets #goes #man

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

#corp #go #infiltrate #into #marine

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

#conditions #economy #essential #exist #german

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#circumstances #civilians #illegal #indiscriminate #ought

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

#i #know #most #peacetime #thing