George C. Marshall Military 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Political, Problem

• 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

• 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.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Mean

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

• An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. ... It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Real, Distance

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

• 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.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Defense, Consideration

  "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall" by the George C. Marshall Foundation, Vol. 2, Ch. 2,, 1986.

• 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.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, War, Enemy

  "Times-Herald" (Washington, D.C.), (p. 1), March 3, 1942.

• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

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

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