George C. Marshall Quotes

When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.

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.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

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 don’t want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

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.

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.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

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

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.