Omar N. Bradley

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.

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.

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.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

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.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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

It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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.