How to use "cease" in a sentence

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease

Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease