Omar N. Bradley Quotes

"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 for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Life, Decision, Act, Acting, Circumstances, Mind)

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Being, Danger, Humanity, Weapons, World)

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Light, Stars)

"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: War, Peace, Killing, Living)

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Death, Bravery)

"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 dead."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Guilt)

"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 his opinions."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Opinions, Service, Tongue)

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Power, Wisdom, Conscience, Giants, World)

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: War)

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Stars)

"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 know about living."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: War, Peace, Giants, Killing, Living, World)

"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Leadership)

"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 have a problem definitely."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Soldiers, states)

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Mystery)