[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.