Browsing Topic Best War Time Quotes

What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys’ money even in war time but there’s nothing on the books says a man’s life’s his own.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

I’m all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn’t make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it’s a hero who is running away.