The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

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