Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

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.