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There is no such thing as honor, Captain. There is only desire, and the sorrow that it brings
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H. Leighton Dickson (To Walk in the Way of Lions (Upper Kingdom, #2))
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The importance of Marshall’s pre–Pearl Harbor leadership is impossible to ignore. To cite one dynamic example, fully three-quarters (more than 45,000) of the Army’s lieutenants and captains who fought in all theaters of World War II were graduates of the Officer Candidate Schools he fought so hard to establish before the United States entered the war, in the face of strong opposition from both Roosevelt and Stimson.
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Paul Dickson (The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor)