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

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.