Omar N. Bradley Quotes

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• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait…
• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we…
• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
• Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the…
• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball…
• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would…
• We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.
• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally…
• As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
• War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
• In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
• Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.
• I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
• A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

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