Quotes from Omar N. Bradley

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.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

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.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

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.

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.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.