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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

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[Airplanes] are interesting toys, but of no military value.

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

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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This is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years.

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

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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

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

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My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

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My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking.

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

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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.

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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.

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An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).

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If defeat comes from moral causes, victory may come from moral causes also, and one may say: 'A battle won is a battle we will not acknowledge to be lost.'

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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.

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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry.
The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

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