War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter, and consequently less inhuman.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.

The Princes of this house have abandoned their capital, not like soldiers of honour who cede to the circumstances and setbacks of the war, but like the perjured who are pursued by their own remorse.