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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.

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Omar N. Bradley
Age: 88 †
Born: 1893
Born: February 12
Died: 1981
Died: April 8
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Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.
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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.
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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.
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The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.
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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.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
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A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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Amateurs study tactics professionals study logistics.
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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.
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Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.
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Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
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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.
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Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.
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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.
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Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying understanding, not weakness justice, not irresponsible freedom humaneness, not intolerance generosity, not selfishness pride, not egotism.
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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.
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
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