Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

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.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.