George C. Marshall Quotes
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The price of peace is eternal vigilance
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The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
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Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
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It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
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I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.
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When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.
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We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.
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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
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It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
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Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
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The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.
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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
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I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.
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The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
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Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
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What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be
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You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.
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As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.
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I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.
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The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.
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I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.
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Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.
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The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.
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Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
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Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
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An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. ... It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.
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George C. Marshall
- Born: December 31, 1880
- Died: October 16, 1959
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Defense
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