Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint ligh...
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degre...
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means