Omar N. Bradley Quotes - Page 2

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

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.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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.

Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

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.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

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.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

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.

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

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.

Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

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.