No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

[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.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d'état, and bound them to their own aggressive purposes. In view of the great service that conscription has rendered to tyranny and war, it is fundamentally shortsighted for any liberty-loving and peace-desiring peoples to maintain it as an imagined safeguard, lest they become the victims of the monster they have helped to preserve.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future