Ferdinand Foch Quotes on War
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Mon centre cede, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
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A radish will never stand in the way of victory.
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This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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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.
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A beaten general is disgraced forever.
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There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.