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
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.
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.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
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.
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. ...
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.