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George Catlett Marshall – amerykański dowódca wojskowy, generał armii United States Army, uczestnik I i II wojny światowej, polityk, 50. Sekretarz stanu Stanów Zjednoczonych , sekretarz obrony USA , przewodniczący Amerykańskiego Czerwonego Krzyża, laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla . Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Grudzień 1880 – 16. Październik 1959
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George Marshall słynne cytaty

„Koszty wojny mam ciągle przed oczami. Starannie wypisane w księdze rachunkowej, w której kolumny są nagrobkami.”

Źródło: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 5

George Marshall: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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
Wariant: Don't fight the problem. Decide it!

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

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.”

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.”

Źródło: reaction to Churchill'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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