I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a guarantee that a world war will not be thrust upon us. But a policy of patience and determination without provoking a world war, while we improve our military power, is one which we believe we must continue to follow. Under present circumstances, we have recommended against enlarging the war from Korea to also include Red China. The course of action often described as a limited war with Red China would increase the risk we are taking by engaging too much of our power in an area that is not the critical strategic prize. Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
—Omar Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: War
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Success
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Decisions
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.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Peace
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.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: America
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.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: The Military, Service
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
—Omar Bradley
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: God, Divinity, Faith
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Conscience, Ethics
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. 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.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Ethics
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Weapon
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Technology, Wisdom
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: Courage, Bravery, Brave
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.
—Omar Bradley
Topics: America
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