Discussions Quotes

The effect of discussions, making a show of talent, and calling councils of war will be what the effect of these things has been in every age: they will end in the adoption of the most pusillanimous or (if the expression be preferred) the most prudent measures, which in war are almost uniformly the worst that can be adopted.True wisdom, so far as a general is concerned, consists in energetic determination.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.