Quotes by George C. Marshall

Don't fight the problem, decide it.
– George C. Marshall
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.
– George C. Marshall
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.
– George C. Marshall
I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding certain of the basic issues today who has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the fall of Athens.
– George C. Marshall
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
– George C. Marshall
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
– George C. Marshall
I will give you the best I have.
– George C. Marshall
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
– George C. Marshall