Politics Is The Womb In Which War

Four Elements Make Up The Climate Of War: Danger, Exertion, Uncertainty And Chance.

The Conqueror Is Always A Lover Of Peace: He Would Prefer To Take Over Our Country Unopposed.

Savage Peoples Are Ruled By Passion, Civilized Peoples By The Mind. The Difference Lies Not In The Respective Natures Of Savagery And Civilization, But In Their Attendant Circumstances, Institutions, And So Forth. The Difference, Therefore, Does Not Operate In Every Sense, But It Does In Most Of Them. Even The Most Civilized Peoples, In Short, Can Be Fired With Passionate Hatred For Each Other.

Knowledge In War Is Very Simple, Being Concerned With So Few Subjects, And Only With Their Final Results At That. But This Does Not Make Its Application Easy.

Timidity Is The Root Of Prudence In The Majority Of Men.