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.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.