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Omar Bradley was a senior American Army officer and a key commander during World War II. Known as the “soldier’s general,” he played a major role in the Allied invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Western Europe. He later served as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and helped shape U.S. military policy in the early Cold War period. Here are 39 of his quotes:

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

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar Bradley

We have men of science, too few men of God. 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. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley

Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

Omar Bradley

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. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar Bradley

I walked to the window and ripped open the blackout blinds. Outside the sun was climbing into the sky. The war in Europe had ended.

Omar Bradley

His vigor was always infectious, his wit barbed, his conversation a mixture of obscenity and good humor. He was at once stimulating and overbearing. George was a magnificent soldier.

Omar Bradley

I prefer to remember Patton as a man, as a man with all the frailties and faults of a human being, as a man whose greatness is therefore all the more of a triumph.

Omar Bradley

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Omar Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

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. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

Omar Bradley