The best strategy is always to be very strong.

The best form of defense is attack.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

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.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.