The Very Nature Of Interactions Is Bound

The More A General Is Accustomed To Place Heavy Demands On His Soldiers, The More He Can Depend On Their Response.

War Is Politics By Other Means.

The Invention Of Gunpowder And The Constant Improvement Of Firearms Are Enough In Themselves To Show That The Advance Of Civilization Has Done Nothing Practical To Alter Or Deflect The Impulse To Destroy The Enemy, Which Is Central To The Very Idea Of War.

We Shall Not Enter Into Any Of The Abstruse Definitions Of War Used By Publicists. We Shall Keep To The Element Of The Thing Itself, To A Duel. War Is Nothing But A Duel On An Extensive Scale.

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