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Top 25 Ferdinand Foch Quotes (2025 Update)

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”

2. “The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”

— Ferdinand Foch

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Ferdinand Foch Quote: “My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “Victory is a thing of the will.”

5. “Victory is a thing of the will.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.”

6. “It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”

7. “One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “The unknown is the governing principle of war.”

9. “The unknown is the governing principle of war.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “No study is possible on the battlefield.”

11. “No study is possible on the battlefield.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.”

12. “The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “A beaten general is disgraced forever.”

13. “A beaten general is disgraced forever.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows .”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.”

15. “The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “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 never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.”

16. “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 never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.”

17. “There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

20. “In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “Don’t drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.”

21. “Don’t drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.”

24. “To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”

25. “A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”

— Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch Quote: “Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.”

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

— Ferdinand Foch

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