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

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