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

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.

In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

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