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Quotes About Ceasefire

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
~ Jim Mattis
None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Let us have peace.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
We want peace to be permanent.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'
~ Jochen Zeitz
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.
~ David Ignatius
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
~ Ferdinand Foch
Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
Today is a good day for war to end.
~ Deepak Chopra
Cessation of hostilities. War is over. If any Japanese airplanes appear, shoot them down in a friendly way.
~ William F. Halsey
Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.
~ Charles Sumner
Thus ended the Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the 20th century. After eight years of bitter fighting, untold casualties, and immeasurable suffering and dislocation, the two combatants were forced, out of sheer exhaustion and debilitation, to settle for the status quo ante existing in September 1980. Yet there was little doubt that neither of them viewed the ceasefire as the end of the conflict.
~ Efraim Karsh
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
~ Hans Blix
The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
~ Martin McGuinness
We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.
~ Nursultan Nazarbayev
Bilateral talks would have to achieve cessation of the missile work by the North Koreans. And it would have to include, as did the Iranian deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency or some other group coming in to assess that and to enforce that to give information about it internationally.
~ Richard Lugar
I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire
~ Madonna Ciccone
Peace broke out.
~ Salman Rushdie
Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
~ Ambrose Bierce
We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.
~ Mwai Kibaki
Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.
~ Petro Poroshenko
When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.
~ Hillary Clinton