To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

If you want peace, understand war.

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

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

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.