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

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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. 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. – Omar Bradley

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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. – Omar Bradley

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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

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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. – Oliver Cromwell

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