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George C. Marshall Quotes about War

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

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.

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.

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

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

George C. Marshall
War, Winning, Cities
"The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

George C. Marshall
War, Army, Fighting

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

George C. Marshall
War, Political, United States
The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

George C. Marshall
War, Doctors, Patient

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.

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.

George C. Marshall
War, Japan, Victory

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.

George C. Marshall
War, Mean, Blood

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.

George C. Marshall
War, Eye, History

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