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All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. — Carl Von Clausewitz

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. — Carl Von Clausewitz

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 bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The best strategy is always to be very strong. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Democracy means decision by those concerned. — Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy. — Carl Von Clausewitz

leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried "I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom. — Edmund Fawcett

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men. — Carl Von Clausewitz

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. — 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

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. — Carl Von Clausewitz

To secure peace is to prepare for war. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. — Carl Von Clausewitz

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. — Carl Von Ossietzky

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. — Carl Von Clausewitz

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! — Carl Maria Von Weber

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Knowledge must become capability. — Carl Von Clausewitz

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy. — 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

An artist's sphere of influence is the world. — Carl Maria Von Weber

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment — Carl Von Clausewitz

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy's center of gravity — Carl Von Clausewitz

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end. — Carl Von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. — Carl Von Clausewitz

[ ... ] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl Von Clausewitz

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. — Carl Von Clausewitz

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge. — 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

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable. — Carl Von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered. — Carl Von Clausewitz

There is only one decisive victory: the last. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is ... a trinity of violence, chance, and reason. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is politics by other means. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. — Carl Von Clausewitz

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. — Carl Von Clausewitz

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 means. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. — Carl Von Clausewitz

...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance. — 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

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

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

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. — 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

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

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity — Carl Von Clausewitz

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper ... — Carl Von Clausewitz

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal. — Carl Von Clausewitz

History had no lessons or rules to offer the student, it could only broaden his understanding and strengthen his critical judgment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science. — Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker

... a strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult — Carl Von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst. — Carl Von Clausewitz

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. — Carl Von Clausewitz