Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
A great country ought not to make little wars.