The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

— Elmer Davis

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

— Margaret Atwood

“War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for…

— Donna Tartt

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

— Max Hastings

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a…

— Tim O'Brien

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or…

— Bashar al-Assad

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan…

— Lupe Fiasco

With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we call terrorists…

— Wayne Dyer

America going into this huge, costly, never-ending war created huge debt, which became a huge problem in Congress and led to it stalling many…

— Karan Mahajan

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

— Betty Dodson

We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership…

— Barack Obama

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual…

— Colin Quinn

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war

— Carl Andrew Spaatz