"The best form of defense is attack." — Carl von Clausewitz
"The best form of defense is attack."
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Carl von Clausewitz
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97 Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends…
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
— Antonio Banderas
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
— Jack Adams
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
— H. Rap Brown
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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