All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

— Milton Berle

“Ceasefire only postpones war, disarmament instills peace. Armistice empowers armament, demilitarization plants peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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…

— Ugo Cavallero

“Though the issue of collaboration, whether active or passive, remains a highly emotive matter in France, the fact was that, in the summer of…

— Jonathan Fenby

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

— Bernard DeVoto

“Emotionally and politically, Syngman Rhee could not accept the armistice terms. They left his nation and people divided; they left a million South Koreans…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great…

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Chris Cleave

“The last deaths of the Great War on the western front occurred at midnight on the twelfth in Hamont, a Belgian town near the…

— Joseph E. Persico

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not…

— Chris Cleave

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

— Ferdinand Foch