The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alone. The ardor of his spirit must rekindle the flame of purpose in all others; his inward fire must revive their hope.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.