George C. Marshall Quotes

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fighting, Winning

  Military Review, October 1948.

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• 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.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Heart, Soul

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

  George C. Marshall

  Motivational, Positive, Objectivity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  George C. Marshall

  Love, Life, Family

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Hunger Poverty, Political

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Following Instructions, Serious, Given

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Stars, Light, Sight

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

  George C. Marshall

  War, Acceptance, Winning

  "This is Our World" by Louis Fisher, (p. 91), 1956.

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

  George C. Marshall

  War, World, Poverty

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• Don't fight the problem, decide it.

  George C. Marshall

  Fighting, Political, Campaigns

  "The Wise Men". Book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, 1986.

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• Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

  George C. Marshall

  Spiritual, Military, War

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2004.

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Government, Imagination, Democracy

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• The price of peace is eternal vigilance

  George C. Marshall

  Vigilance, Eternal, Eternal Vigilance

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Military, Struggle

  "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 3, 1991.

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• I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

  George C. Marshall

  Done, Assistants, Problem

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Sitting, Asking, Want

  "General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman" by Ed Cray, (p. 591), 1991.

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• If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

  George C. Marshall

  Writing, Strategy, Objectives

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• When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Troops, Complaining

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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.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Airplane, Army

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• The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

  George C. Marshall

  Choices, Acting, Energy

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• 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.

  George C. Marshall

  Mean, Talking, People

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

  George C. Marshall

  Courage, Attitude, Mind

  Military Review, October 1948.

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• The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

  George C. Marshall

  Heart, Soul, Soldier

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

  George C. Marshall

  Down The Road, Evasion

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

  George C. Marshall

  Maintaining, Momentum, Elements

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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