Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.