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We have men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. 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 than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

— Omar Bradley

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If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.

I prefer to remember Patton as a man, as a man with all the frailties and faults of a human being, as a man whose greatness is therefore all the more of a triumph.

A Soldier's Story (1951)

We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

Behind every river, there’s another hill—and behind that hill, another river.

A Soldier's Story (1951)

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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