War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

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