“It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as t...” — W. Averell Harriman Quote

“It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.”

“The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.”

“How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.”

“I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.”

“I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.”

“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”