Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
George C. MarshallI 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. MarshallGo right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
George C. MarshallI think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.
George C. Marshall