Last minute Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.”

— Courtney Milan

“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

“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing a far…

— Bruce Catton

I have attended to your request about the armistice.

— Anonymous

We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of…

— Harry S. Truman

“It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost;”

— John Green

“knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where the troops…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Chris Cleave

“One war ends, another begins.”

— George R.R. Martin

“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Had Marshal Foch accepted Matthias Erzberger’s plea to stop the fighting on November 8 while negotiations were under way, likely, 6,750 lives would have…

— Joseph E. Persico