George C. Marshall

GEORGE C. MARSHALL
(1880-1959)
Soldier and Statesman
Chief of Staff, United States Army, 1989-1945
United States Secretary of State, 1947-1949
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1988
The cost of war in human lives is constantly
spread before me, written neatly in many
ledgers Whose columns are gravestones.
There is no higher goal then the establishment
of enduring peace and the maintenance of the
freedom for the individual.