“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 , book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

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Canadian writer 1939

William McKeen (1954) American academic

Epilogue, p. 365
Outlaw Journalist (2008)

“The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.”

Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 19 (p. 188)

“It is easy to start a war, but its end is decided by will-o-the-wisp, which is so effective in deceiving travelers on this road!”

Guity Novin (1944) artist

Source: Facebook Page (2021)

“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”

Marguerite de Navarre book Heptaméron

Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)

“There is a race war that is going on in our country, declared by the Black Panthers and Louis Farrakhan and anybody else who says that America somehow or another stole the land from Mexico. There is a race war. It wasn't started by us, but they have declared it, and we must end it. There is a war between the political parties, both of them, and the American people. We did not start it, but we must end it. There is a war between the media and the truth. And it must end.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Values Voter Summit 2011-10-08, quoted in * Beck: "There Is A Race War That Is Going On In Our Country"
Media Matters for America
2011-10-08
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110080003
2011-08-17
2010s, 2011

“The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war.”

Eerik-Niiles Kross (1967) Estonian politician

America, welcome to the war (2016)

“The war has been variously termed a war of production and a war of machines. Whatever else it is, so far as the United States is concerned, it is a war of logistics.”

Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations

First Report, p. 34
U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946)

“The United States while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none, it being a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, so war is better than tribute.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

A paraphrased variant of this seems to have arisen on the internet around 2007: It is ... a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.
1810s
Source: Message delivered to Dey Omar Agha, by Isaac Chauncey and William Shaler , summarizing the Treaty with Algiers (1815) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/bar1815t.asp, and U.S attitudes and actions in the Barbary Wars, in refusing to pay ransom or tribute to pirates of the Barbary States, as quoted in History and Present Condition of Tripoli: With Some Accounts of the Other Barbary States http://books.google.com/books?id=YMwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 (1835) by Robert Greenhow, p. 46

“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.”

William Faulkner book A Fable

Source: A Fable

“All wars will be settled by sea power.”

Erich Raeder (1876–1960) German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II

In Forrest Davis, "The Atlantic System: The Story of Anglo-American Control of the Seas" (1941), p. 221.

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

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