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Military Quotes by Ferdinand Foch
- It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
- Victory is a thing of the will.
- 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…
- In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
- A beaten general is disgraced forever.
- My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey