It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

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

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

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.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

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