The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. - Ferdinand Foch
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
- Ferdinand Foch
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. - Ferdinand Foch
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. - Ferdinand Foch
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. - Ferdinand Foch
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective. - Ferdinand Foch
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think. - Ferdinand Foch
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. - Ferdinand Foch
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat. - Ferdinand Foch
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
Victory is a thing of the will. - Ferdinand Foch
Victory is a thing of the will.
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