In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

[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.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

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 unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

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