All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.