List of George C. Marshall Quotes

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.

I Find It Hard Even Now Not To Look On Your North African Strategy With A Jaundiced Eye. Cross Channel Operations For The Liberation Of France And Advance On Germany, We Should Finish The War Quicker. Yes, Probably, But Not The Way We Hope To Finish It.

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.

I Said Bluntly That If The President Were To Follow Mr. Clifford's Advice And If In The Elections I Were To Vote, I Would Vote Against The President.

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.

It Seems To Be Hard Wired Into Our Pleasure Centres To Move To Music.

The Refusal Of The British And Russian Peoples To Accept What Appeared To Be Inevitable Defeat Was The Great Factor In The Salvage Of Our Civilization.

No Compromise Is Possible And The Victory Of The Democracies Can Only Be Complete With The Utter Defeat Of The War Machines Of Germany And Japan.

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.

The Patient Is Sinking While The Doctors Deliberate.

If Man Does Find The Solution For World Peace It Will Be The Most Revolutionary Reversal Of His Record We Have Ever Known.

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.