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

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless..

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself..

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years..

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack..

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost..

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat..

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think..

Victory is a thing of the will..

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best ….

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of goin….

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

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole..

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 ….

The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to ….

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a….

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the….

The unknown is the governing principle of war..

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

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the mome….

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….