There is only one decisive victory: the last.

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.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.