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In America we have not suffered the destruction of our homes, our towns, and our cities. We have not been enslaved for long periods, at the complete mercy of a conqueror.

— George C. Marshall Essentials to Peace (1953)

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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.

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

We must present democracy as a force holding within itself the seeds of unlimited progress by the human race.

Essentials to Peace (1953)

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 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.

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