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Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce. -- Milton Berle
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate. -- Bernard DeVoto
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. -- Ferdinand Foch
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on. -- Thucydides
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. -- Glen Cook
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. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. -- Pietro Badoglio
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. -- Alexis Ohanian
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. -- Noah Feldman
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. -- Jacques Derrida
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. -- Stephanie Mills
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. -- Ugo Cavallero
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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. -- Harry Reid
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. -- Woodrow Wilson
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. -- Audre Lorde
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation. -- Chris Cleave

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