The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response..

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank..

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain..

War is politics by other means..

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason..

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien..

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it..

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy st….

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective..

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat..

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every ci….

Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just….

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal..

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships….