The Best Form Of Defense Is Attack.

Self-reliance Is The Best Defence Against The Pressures Of The Moment.

Everything In War Is Very Simple, But The Simplest Thing Is Difficult. The Difficulties Accumulate And End By Producing A Kind Of Friction That Is Inconceivable Unless One Has Experienced War. ... Countless Minor Incidents - The Kind You Can Never Really Foresee - Combine To Lower The General Level Of Performance, So That One Always Falls Short Of The Intended Goal.

All Action Takes Place, So To Speak, In A Kind Of Twilight, Which Like A Fog Or Moonlight, Often Tends To Make Things Seem Grotesque And Larger Than They Really Are.

Of All The Passions That Inspire A Man In A Battle, None, We Have To Admit, Is So Powerful And So Constant As The Longing For Honor And Reknown.

The Conqueror Is Always A Lover Of Peace: He Would Prefer To Take Over Our Country Unopposed.