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War Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
- Politics is the womb in which war develops.
- The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
- Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
- War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other…
- War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
- Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
- War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
- War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
- Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect…
- Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
- The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
- The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
- The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly…
- In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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