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

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.