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

— Ferdinand Foch

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

Precepts and Judgments (1919)

Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating.

Precepts and Judgments (1919)

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

The Principles of War (1913)

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

The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956)

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

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