Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

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