Top 42 George C. Marshall Quotes
#1. 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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#2. A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
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#3. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant
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#4. "Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination."
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#6. If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
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#7. When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#13. 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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#15. 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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#16. I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
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#17. Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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#18. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.
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#19. We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.
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#20. Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
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#21. The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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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#26. The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.
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#28. A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
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#29. The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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.
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#39. Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#42. It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
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