Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Blood is the price of victory