Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by fee….

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, ….

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men..

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is in….

A conqueror is always a lover of peace..

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, b….

Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individua….

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas..

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment..

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations..

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alon….

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth….

War is merely a continuation of politics..

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means..

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy..

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes..

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor….

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

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everyt….

In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole….

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the str….