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

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.

A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

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

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

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