"When conditions are difficult, the command is depressed and everyone seems critical and pessimistic, you must be cheerful and optimistic."
Maj. George Marshall, just after he returned from France, November 5, 1920
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"When conditions are difficult, the command is depressed and everyone seems critical and pessimistic, you must be cheerful and optimistic."
Maj. George C. Marshall to retired Brig. Gen. John Mallory, Nov. 1920.
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On our first cold morning at the #MarshallFoundationLibrary, my favorite #MarshallWisdom temper moment:
"Get these blankets and stoves and every other damn thing that's needed out tonight, not tomorrow morning, and not two weeks from now.
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"Tyranny inevitably must retire before the tremendous strength of the gospel of freedom and self-respect for the individual."
George C. Marshall on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 11, 1953

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"Get these blankets and stoves and every other damn thing that's needed out tonight, not tomorrow morning, and not two weeks from now.
I don't care what regulations are upset or anything of that character.
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