Ashes Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

— George Orwell

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

“The War went on far too long... It was too vast for its meaning, like a giant with the brain of a midge. Its…

— Wyndham Lewis

War very strange thing. Not easy, not easy for sure to leave family, friends, even car, house, everything.

— Toni Kukoc

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

— Ron Wyden

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is…

— Karl Von Clausewitz

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”

— Evan Meekins

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

— Julie Andrews

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

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

— Chuck Hagel

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars…

— Stephen King