The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

War is the province of danger.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

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.