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

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.