Quote #12

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

More from Ferdinand Foch

  1. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
  2. Les avions sont des jouets interessants mais n'ont aucune utilite militaire
  3. There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
  4. A beaten general is disgraced forever.
  5. 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 …
  6. One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
  7. In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
  8. This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

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