Quotes about Karl Von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more...

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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

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Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time...

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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with...

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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in...

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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a...

#Karl Von Clausewitz