There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Blood is the price of victory

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.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

War is the province of danger.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.