Quotes from George C. Marshall

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

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.

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.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

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.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

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.

[On World War II:] We could not indulge in a Seven Years War. A king can perhaps do that, but you cannot have such a protracted struggle in a democracy in the face of mounting casualties.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

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.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

I will give you the best I have.

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.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.