George C. Marshall Quotes

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

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

In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

The financial solvency and economic soundness of the United States constitute the first requisite of collective security in the free world. That comes before everything else.

Are there topics of sufficient import to the nation's well-being to replace the Soviets as the focus of U.S. intelligence?

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness of soul. You want the region to prosper; you want countries to do well, and you are prepared to help them.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world. They don't want war. They don't want to see protectionism. They don't want to see the world break out into various forms of chaos.

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.