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George Catlett Marshall, Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer General of the Army und Staatsmann. Am bekanntesten wurde er durch den nach ihm benannten Marshallplan, für den er 1953 den Friedensnobelpreis und 1959 den Karlspreis erhielt.

✵ 31. Dezember 1880 – 16. Oktober 1959
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„Der einzige Weg einen Krieg zu gewinnen, ist ihn zu verhindern.“

George Catlett Marshall

Original engl.: "The only way to win a war is to prevent it." - vgl. :en:George Marshall#Quotes: The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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„Unsere Politik richtet sich nicht gegen ein bestimmtes Land oder eine bestimmte Doktrin, sie richtet sich gegen Hunger, Armut, Verzweiflung und Chaos. Ihr Zweck ist die Wiederbelebung einer funktionierenden Weltwirtschaft, damit politische und soziale Bedingungen geschaffen werden, unter denen freie Institutionen existieren können.“

George Catlett Marshall

Rede am 5. Juni 1947 an der Harvard Universität. Zitiert in: Erich Achterberg. General Marshall macht Epoche - Konferenzen, Gestalten, Hintergründe. Ullstein Verlag Berlin 1964. S. 89 <br class="br">*Original engl.: &quot;Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.&quot; - usaid.gov http://www.usaid.gov/multimedia/video/marshall/marshallspeech.html

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“The hardest thing I ever did was keep my temper at that time.”

George Marshall

A comment to a personal friend, about Joseph McCarthy's attacks upon his loyalty (which went so far as to call him a "traitor"), as quoted by Alistair Cooke, in Letter from America : General Marshall (16 October 1959), published in Memories of the Great and the Good (1999)

“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”

George Marshall

As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson

“The price of peace is eternal vigilance.”

George Marshall

This has been attributed to Marshall, and he might have used the phrase, but earlier uses exist:
There is an imperialism that deserves all honor and respect — an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of domination and aggrandisement, the glorification of power. The price of peace is eternal vigilance.
Leonard H. Courtney as quoted in The Life Of Lord Courtney (I920) by G. P. Gooch
Courtney's statement however is probably derived from an earlier statement with several variants:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
These have often been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but also Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, and many others; Alfred Denning in The Road to Justice (1988) states that the phrase originated in a statement of Irish orator John Philpot Curran in 1790: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
Misattributed

“I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.”

George Marshall

To his staffers, as quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591

“Don’t fight the problem, decide it.”

George Marshall

As quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
As quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591
Variante: Don't fight the problem. Decide it!

“I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic.”

George Marshall

Quoted from George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

“We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.”

George Marshall

Many attribute this quote to Marshall, however, General Omar Bradley is the correct author. Statement by Bradley (31 May 1948), quoted in An Inconvenient Truth : The Planetary Emergency Of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It (2006) by Al Gore.
Misattributed

“Not one American soldier is going to die on that goddamned beach.”

George Marshall

Quelle: reaction to Churchill&#x27;s pitch at the Cairo Conference in November 1943 for the Americans to join in an assault on Rhodes. quoted by Correl, John T. “Churchill’s Southern Strategy.” Air Force Magazine, January 2013 https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0113churchill/

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