Armistice Quotes
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Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
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But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
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In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.
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We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.
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To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
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You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.
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I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
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The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
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Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.
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If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.
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Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
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We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
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This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
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Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
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What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.
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