War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

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.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.