Quotes by Omar Bradley

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
• 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.
• We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.
• We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
• 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.
• 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.
• The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
• 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.
• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.