Фердинанд Фош цитаты

Источник: Краснов П.Н., «От Двуглавого Орла к красному знамени»: В 2 книгах. — Кн. 2. — М.: Айрис-пресс, 2005 г. (Белая Россия)

Пётр Краснов, «От Двуглавого Орла к красному знамени», 1922

И кроме того, в связи с Октябрьской революцией и Брестским миром единодушие внутри самой Антанты (Ллойд-Джордж ― Клемансо ― Вильсон) касательно того, как быть с Россией, было если не утрачено, то поколеблено.

Source: Н. Берберова. «Железная женщина». — М.: Книжная палата, 1991 г.

Нина Берберова, «Железная женщина», 1980

Через два дня генерал Миллер дополнительно телеграфировал: «Письмом 11-го сентября Мильерану маршал Фош поддерживает Ваши предложения, обусловливая осуществление их согласием Польши и присылкой польских уполномоченных в Париж, просит Мильерана поспешить разрешением, в виду указанного Вами срока возможного приезда сюда. 14-го сентября 1920 года № 765. Миллер».

генерал Врангель, «Записки. Книга первая», 1921

Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914), as quoted in Foch : Le Vainqueur de la Guerre (1919) by Raymond Recouly, Ch. 6

As quoted in The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p. 3

direction and vigour
Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 138

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 214
Контексте: The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport. You do not make war without reason, without an object, as you would give yourself up to music, painting, hunting, lawn tennis, where there is no great harm done whether you stop altogether or go on, whether you do little or much. Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating. When you are at war you have no power to act at random. Each operation has a raison d'etre, that is an object; that object, once determined, fixes the nature and the value of the means to be resorted to as well as the use which ought to be made of the forces.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 211
Контексте: 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.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 105
Контексте: 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.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 214
Контексте: The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport. You do not make war without reason, without an object, as you would give yourself up to music, painting, hunting, lawn tennis, where there is no great harm done whether you stop altogether or go on, whether you do little or much. Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating. When you are at war you have no power to act at random. Each operation has a raison d'etre, that is an object; that object, once determined, fixes the nature and the value of the means to be resorted to as well as the use which ought to be made of the forces.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p.
Контексте: To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 108
Контексте: 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.

The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 370
Victory is a thing of the will.
perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962

The Principles of War (1913)

As quoted in M*A*S*H, Season 3, Episode 1, "The General Flipped At Dawn"; this seems to be a jocular fabrication.
Misattributed

Les avions sont des jouets intéressants mais n'ont aucune utilité militaire
Said in 1911 as quoted Time : A Traveler's Guide (1998) by Clifford A. Pickover, p. 249

To Alvin C. York, on his extraordinary capture of over a hundred enemy troops behind enemy lines, as quoted in the Preface of Sergeant York And His People (1922) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19117 by Sam K. Cowan

Said after the Treaty of Versailles, as quoted in Memoires (1963) by Paul Reynaud, vol. 2, p. 457

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 209

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 83

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175

As quoted in Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) by Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov, p. 338

As engraved on the statue of Ferdinand Foch on Grosvenor Square, London.

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 154

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 110

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 209

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 152

Variant translation: In our time, which thinks it can do without ideals, that it can reject what it calls abstractions, and nourish itself on realism, rationalism and positivism; which thinks it can reduce all questions to matters of science or to the employing of more or less ingenious expedients; at such a time, I say, there is but one resource if you are to avoid disaster, and only one which will make you certain of what course to hold upon a given day. It is the worship — to the exclusion of all others — of two Ideas in the field of morals: duty and discipline. And that worship further needs, if it is to bear fruit and produce results, knowledge and reason.
As quoted in "A Sketch of the Military Career of Marshal Foch" by Major A. Grasset
Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 150

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 140

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 79

Источник: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 199