It is unprecedented, but equally these are unprecedented times. These are the biggest threats that London has ever faced in peacetime,
Quotes about peacetime (14 Quotes)
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
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.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.
Regarding Ronald Reagan Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why Because what happened during the 1980s prosperity at home (the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, 'The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc.' The 1980s have been intentionally mischaracterized by slick liberal politicians with the complicity of the mainstream media.
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.
We have a real-world mission even in peacetime. Every time the phone goes off, you knew someone was relying on us to get there.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
. . . 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.
I think it's clear that there are some in the military who believe that gay and lesbian service members do their jobs well, and that undercuts the 'cohesion' argument, ... If gays and lesbians wouldn't undercut cohesion during a time of conflict, they wouldn't during peacetime, either.