Marshall............................

General George C. Marshall was one of  my father's heroes, and since Dad spent 1942-1945 overseas as a sergeant in the Army, I figure he should know.  Among Dad's books now in my possession are two biographies of Marshall.  As a short-cut, read about him here.  Winston Churchill called Marshall "the organizer of victory."   Harry Truman said "he was the greatest of the great."  It is the rare General who wins the Nobel Peace Prize (1953 for the "Marshall Plan") and gets credited for re-building a continent.  Here are a handful of quotes attributed to Marshall:

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

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

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

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.