Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

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.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy