There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

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

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.