1. “The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”
2. “The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.”
3. “In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.”
4. “None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
5. “Don’t drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.”
6. “One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”
7. “In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.”
8. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
9. “The laurels of victory are at the point of enemy bayonets.”
10. “A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.”
11. “Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating.”
12. “Victory is a thing of the will.”
13. “There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.”
14. “An army is too 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.”
15. “The unknown is the governing condition of war.”
