Quotes by Omar Bradley

“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.”

“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.”

“War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Weve 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.”

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. Weve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.”

“O war! thou son of Hell!”

“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”

“We cannot be both the worlds leading champion of peace and the worlds leading supplier of the weapons of war”