This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

- Ferdinand Foch

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

- Ferdinand Foch

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

- Ferdinand Foch

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

- Ferdinand Foch

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

- 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.

- Ferdinand Foch

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

- Ferdinand Foch

Victory is a thing of the will.

- Ferdinand Foch

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

- Ferdinand Foch