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
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
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'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.
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 know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
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.
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.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
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.
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.