Omar N. Bradley Quotes

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... It brings us into very dangerous territory and it could be used and abused by any other country. We need to continue to base our security on multilateralism, and on the Security Council.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man I think, is the great protection against war

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.