Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

War is politics by other means.

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

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

Blood is the price of victory