Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown..

But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their ….

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable..

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy..

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior..

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and h….

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect..

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris..

Knowledge must become capability..

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will..

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a ….

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the ….

We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and ….

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects th….

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by ….

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contri….

[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly….

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twiligh….

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.….

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge..