Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
To foster the people’s willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war.
The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.