My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Interpretation
Embrace challenges as opportunities for action and resilience.
This quote by Ferdinand Foch emphasizes the importance of courage and initiative in the face of adversity. Instead of succumbing to despair when the situation appears dire, Foch advocates for seizing the moment to attack, suggesting that even in retreat, there lies an opportunity to change the course of events through bold action.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles.
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.
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.
I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory. It was a man's work, a duel on the fields whose flowers would be stained with blood. There is no lovelier death in the world... Anything rather than stay at home, anything to make one with the rest.
If you care about something enough, itβs going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
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