War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.

Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general and to master the secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, you will reject all maxims opposed to those of these great commanders.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.