Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The best form of defense is attack.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.