Ferdinand Foch Quotes
- One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
- It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
- Victory is a thing of the will.
- The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
- Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
- The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and…
- The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
- Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.
- This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
- In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
- Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.
- The unknown is the governing principle of war.
- School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways…
- In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
- A beaten general is disgraced forever.
- No study is possible on the battlefield.
- The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
- My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
- It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.