Quotes from Omar N. Bradley

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

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.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

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

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.

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

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.