Quote by Omar Bradley
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform

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

Other quotes by Omar Bradley

Weve 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

Category:
Peace
Read Quote

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

Category:
Technology
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Military, the
category

We know, Mr. Weller — we, who are men of the world — that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Military, the

Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. – Bhagavad Gita

Category:
Military, the

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Military, the

How happy is the sailors life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. – Isaac Bickerstaffe

Category:
Military, the

Random Quotes

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that. – Channing Tatum

Category:
movies

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. – Colin Powell

Category:
Peace

No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

Category:
Books

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. – Ginnifer Goodwin

Category:
Courage