George Catlett Marshall Quotes

• We want you to feel unhampered tactically and strategically to proceed north of the 38th parallel.

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• Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall 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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• 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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• I will give you the best I have.

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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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• I can’t expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.

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

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• 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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• 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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• Don’t fight the problem, decide it.

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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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George Catlett Marshall (11)

Birth:	31st December, 1880
Death:	16th October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Soldier, Statesman

About

George Catlett Marshall was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American statesman and soldier. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army under two presidents, and served as Secretary of State, and then Secretary of Defense, under President Harry S. Truman. He served as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was most famous for his leadership in the Allied victory in World War II and for his work establishing the post-war reconstruction effort for Europe, which became known as the Marshall Plan. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for the plan, which was aimed at the economic recovery of Western Europe after World War II. In 1901, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute.

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