George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall, Jr.was an American statesman and soldier, famous for his leadership roles during World War II and the Cold War. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army under two presidents, and served as Secretary of State, then President of the American Red Cross, and finally Secretary of Defense, under President Harry S. Truman. He was hailed as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill, for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth31 December 1880
CityUniontown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
The price of peace is eternal vigilance
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.
When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.
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.
The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.
I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.
A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
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.
The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.