Politics Is The Womb In Which War

What We Should Admire Is The Acute Fulfillment Of The Unspoken Assumptions, The Smooth Harmony Of The Whole Activity, Which Only Become Evident In The Final Success.

[the Cause Of Inaction In War] ... Is The Imperfection Of Human Perception And Judgment Which Is More Pronounced In War Than Anywhere Else. We Hardly Know Accurately Our Own Situation At Any Particular Moment While The Enemy's, Which Is Concealed From Us, Must Be Deduced From Very Little Evidence.

A Conqueror Is Always A Lover Of Peace.

It Is Even Better To Act Quickly And Err Than To Hesitate Until The Time Of Action Is Past.

In 1793 Such A Force As No One Had Any Conception Of Made Its Appearance. War Had Again Suddenly Become An Affair Of The People, And That Of A People Numbering Thirty Millions, Every One Of Whom Regarded Himself As A Citizen Of The State... By This Participation Of The People In The War... A Whole Nation With Its Natural Weight Came Into The Scale.