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George Marshall
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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.
— Military Review (October 1948)
George Marshall
American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)
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Lived 1880–1959, aged 79United States
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The only U.S. Army general to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Marshall rebuilt a shattered continent after helping to destroy the Axis. Churchill called him the "organizer of victory"; Truman handed him the wreckage of postwar Europe and told him to fix it.
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Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Marshall graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1901 and took a commission in the Infantry, serving in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War and rising through staff schools where he graduated first. He spent World War I planning American operations in France, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, then worked his way through interwar assignments—aide to Pershing, instructor, a stint modernizing the Infantry School's methods in 1927. When war returned in 1939 he became Chief of Staff and built the largest military expansion in U.S. histo…
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George Marshall
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Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
— Military Review (October 1948)
George Marshall
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I would say—when the fighting is at its fiercest, it is invariably the Infantry that carries the ball over for the touchdown.
— Quoted from Katherine Tupper Marshall, Together: Annals of an Army Wife (1946), p. 153
George Marshall
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
— Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army (1 September 1945)
George Marshall
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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.
— Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army (1 September 1945)
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