Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

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.

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

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

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

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.