The best form of defense is attack.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

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

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.