Omar Bradley

"The mark of a true professional is craftmanship."

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look at it closely and declare that they have found a beautiful thing."

"A man of courage is also master of his anger."

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

"Professionals talk shop because their shop is the world."

"In the final analysis, the relationship between the leader and the led is based on the leader's ability to recognize human dignity."

"Our planes should be the best in the world in any way that we can make them."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"I have never objected to an idea because it was new, but because it was not true."

"The human race has reason to be grateful for the gift of sleep."

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."

"I would suggest that innovation is the most dangerous course we could follow."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

"I have never subscribed to the idea that standards in military life should be different from those we have established for society as a whole."

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unknown."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Fortunately for us and for the world, we have found the right man at the right time."

"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands."

"I have found in my long life that the most pleasing achievement comes when you have accomplished something for your fellow man."

"We must have faith that the ultimate triumph is with us."

"A successful leader doesn't try to be the most popular person. Instead they work on being the most effective person."

"The fruits of success are to be enjoyed, but its demands are strict and its inspiration comes from something far greater than personal satisfaction."

"I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith."

"The duty of the leader is to take a complex situation and reduce it to its simplest form."

"I would rather lose in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail."

"The pressure of events forced me to accept a greater responsibility than I had sought."

"Morale is a state of mind. It is that intangible force which will move a common soldier to give his last ounce of effort."

"In the final analysis, my most important job as I see it is to train leaders."