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

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

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

The best form of defense is attack.