Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.

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