Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.