Omar N. Bradley
Omar N. Bradley
General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley, nicknamed Brad, was a highly distinguished senior officer of the United States Army who saw distinguished service in North Africa and Western Europe during World War II, and later became General of the Army. From the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944 through to the end of the war in Europe, Bradley had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west; he ultimately commanded forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth12 February 1893
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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.
The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.
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.
We've 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.
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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.