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If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.
— Joe Haldeman
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The best strategy is always to be very strong.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Only great and general battles can produce great results
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Knowledge must become capability.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the province of danger.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is merely a continuation of politics,
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
— Carl Von Clausewitz