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First Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and…
- Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
- The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of…
- Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is…
- No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
- The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
- No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to…
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