10 Ferdinand Foch Quotes on War

Ferdinand Foch quotes on war

1. Mon centre cede, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.

4. A radish will never stand in the way of victory.

5. This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

6. In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

7. One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.

8. 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.

9. A beaten general is disgraced forever.

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

11. None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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12. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.