Quotes About Reconciliation

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

The class war is over.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

... a war always ends.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

They won the war but lost the peace,

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

delete the word War .rest is peace