"One single private soldier, and we would take good care that he was killed."

"Les avions sont des jouets intéressants mais n'ont aucune utilité militaire"

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

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

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

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

"In tactics, action is the governing rule of war."

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

"The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a …"

"Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle i…"