Omar N. Bradley Quotes
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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.
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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.
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Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
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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.
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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 for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.
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The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.
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Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
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As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
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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.
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In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
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The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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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.
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Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
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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.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.
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A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
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I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
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America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
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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.
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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.
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