Omar N. Bradley Quotes

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

There can be no compromise with war.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Nothing can justify war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I think war should be illegal.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

The Moral Equivalent of War