Omar N. Bradley Quotes

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.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

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.

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

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

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

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

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

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

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.

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