The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence

Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.