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Men Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
- Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
- The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
- We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
- Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
- Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
- Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
- There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
- ...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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