Ferdinand Foch

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by…

— Ferdinand Foch

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

— Ferdinand Foch

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

— Ferdinand Foch

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

— Ferdinand Foch

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

— Ferdinand Foch

Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while…

— Ferdinand Foch

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place,…

— Ferdinand Foch

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

— Ferdinand Foch

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

— Ferdinand Foch

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

— Ferdinand Foch

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

— Ferdinand Foch

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

— Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

— Ferdinand Foch

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining…

— Ferdinand Foch

To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is…

— Ferdinand Foch

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There…

— Ferdinand Foch

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

— Ferdinand Foch

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

— Ferdinand Foch

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn…

— Ferdinand Foch

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

— Ferdinand Foch

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been…

— Ferdinand Foch

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

— Ferdinand Foch

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible;…

— Ferdinand Foch

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.

— Ferdinand Foch

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

— Ferdinand Foch