Omar Bradley
Title: General Omar Nelson Bradley
Full Name: Omar Nelson Bradley
Birthdate: February 12, 1903
Birthplace: Clark, Missouri, USA
Date of Death: April 8, 1981
Occupation: Military
Profile: American Five-Star General. First Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Served during WWII. Best known for
A Soldier's Story (1951).
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Nelson_Bradley
Number of Quotes: 30
A general leads the army; a soldier leads himself.
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs
down, God help America.
American GIs are the best soldiers in the world.
Ambition is a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the present.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Dependence on the machine has atrophied our legs and impaired our wind, but worst of all, it has enslaved us to the traffic light and the parking lot.
Discipline is the soul of an army.
Experience makes good commanders, but war makes the best.
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
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.
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
It is intolerable that the leaders of nations should be allowed to plunge the world into war without warning.
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Learn to listen. Listen and learn.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
Our knowledge of science has outstripped our capacity to control it.
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.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the
Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
From his June 1944 D-Day message to the troops—a famous extended statement, often excerpted.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
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.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
War is a contagion.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Bradley quotes/endorses this maxim; wording varies in attribution contexts.
We are dealing in explosives that can blow up the world, and we'd better make sure we know what we're doing.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death.
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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