Ferdinand Foch

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.