Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

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