Quote #13

Les avions sont des jouets interessants mais n'ont aucune utilite militaire

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  1. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
  2. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
  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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