Omar Bradley Quotes

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

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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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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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Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

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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. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. 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. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

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It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.

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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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The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen.... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us....

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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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Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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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.

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Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver... or came closer to being God's will on earth.

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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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