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Military Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in…
- Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
- The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to…
- 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…
- After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready…
- War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the…
- The best form of defense is attack.
- War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
- In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
- There is only one decisive victory: the last.
- A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
- 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…
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on…
- In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not…
- If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
- The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
- Only great and general battles can produce great results
- Blood is the price of victory
- If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has…
- The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
More Military Quotes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey