Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
– Omar N. Bradley
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.
– Omar N. Bradley
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
– Omar N. Bradley
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
– Omar N. Bradley
Leadership in the democratic army means firmness, not harshness; understanding, not weakness; justice, not license; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
– Omar N. Bradley
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
– Omar N. Bradley
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.
– Omar N. Bradley
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
– Omar N. Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
– Omar N. Bradley
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.
– Omar N. Bradley
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
– Omar N. Bradley
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.
– Omar N. Bradley
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
– Omar N. Bradley
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.