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

Omar N. Bradley

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Omar N. Bradley
Age: 88 †
Born: 1893
Born: February 12
Died: 1981
Died: April 8
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Military Officer
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Politician
Clark
Missouri
Omar Nelson Bradley
Pay
Goal
Peace
Must
Preparedness
Price

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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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Amateurs study tactics professionals study logistics.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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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.
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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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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In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
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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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I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.
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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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