Leadership is intangible. It’s quality and not quantity that counts.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.
If we are not careful, our colleges and universities will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
We are dealing with treachery and threats, not with rationality and reason. Through different lenses, the enemy can be seen to resemble Stalin or Hitler.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
We will chart a careful course in high and rough waters, and I shall be promptly on hand at noon tomorrow to assume my position as your president. I ask for your help and your prayers, as I have said before, because we can meet the challenge of the ’60s only as one, united people.
I don’t believe that a physician should treat the ailment but the patient.
Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist.
One can take my life, but not my self-respect.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
It’s easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.
I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
I do not know about the principles of warfare, but I believe that to be true.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience, Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
It is doubtful that the United States can protect the liberties of those whose liberties are being denied for political reasons.
We are dealing with treachery and threats, not with rationality and reason… The enemy can be seen to resemble Stalin or Hitler.
In joining this society, you venture nothing for good. You only risk your destruction.
I’ve led the best Army that money can buy.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. 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.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling that is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts, but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
The only question that is ever resolved in the battlefield is who won.
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Our people expect their leaders to be aggressive, bold, and constructive. They will always maintain the nation’s security.
It is time now to sit down and work out a reorganization.
Honesty will go farther both honorably and successfully than deceiving and cheating.
The world has not stopped moving since then.
No mace is as lethal and effective as willpower.
To win, the enemy must be defeated in the areas that are important to him.
The wicked are the enemy of the just. I hope you find these quotes by Omar Bradley inspiring and thought-provoking!
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