I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

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

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

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.

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.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

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