Omar Bradley Quotes

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

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.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

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

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

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.

Never use intuition.

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.

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.

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.