War Termination Quotes

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Poison gas meant that the war could be brought to an end sooner and thus reduce the number of casualties.

We must bow to the inevitable. This is a good time to end the war.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

The government considers it the greatest of crimes against humanity to continue this war over the issue of how to divide among the strong and rich nations the weak nationalities they have conquered, and solemnly announces its determination immediately to sign terms of peace to stop this war on the terms indicated, which are equally just for all nationalities without exception.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

Today is a good day for war to end.

We have brought you back, I think, Peace with Honor.

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

The atomic bomb means the end of world war.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

Wars begin where you will but they end where they will.

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.