George C. Marshall
(1880-1959)

American Five Star General
1953 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

birthdate: December 31
birthplace:
Uniontown, Pennsylvania

QUOTES

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

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war...The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

 

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