The British reacted to [General George C. Marshall] with an almost touch-sensitive awareness of his powers. "Marshall remains the key,' wrote Lord Moran, hardly a week after meeting Marshall for the first time" '. . . neither the P.M. [Prime Minister] nor the President can contemplate going forward without Marshall." And later: "In truth, it was impossible not to trust Marshall. . .. It is what Marshall was, and not what he did, that lingers in the mind - his goodness seemed to put ambition out of countenance." After dinner with Marshall in July 1945, Churchill said to Moran, "That is the noblest Roman of them all."
- From Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants & Their War by Eric Larrabee
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