List of Ferdinand Foch Quotes

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Ferdinand Foch
Total Quotes 34
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Military Silly Airplane
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. it is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.
Art War Iron
The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
Strong Troops Action
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. one only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.
Memories Military Drawing
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
Military Forever Beaten
I am conscious of having served england as i served my own country.
Country England Conscious
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Mysterious Charisma Command
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.
Mean Fighting Hands
No study is possible on the battlefield.
Study Battlefields
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
Goal Effort Decision
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
Military War Tactics
One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .
Order Doe Knows
  • Born: October 2, 1851
  • Died: March 20, 1929
  • Occupation: Generalissimo
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