Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

If you want peace, understand war.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.