Sun Tzu Quotes, War Quotes, Fundamentals Quotes

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

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He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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Rapidity is the essence of war.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

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Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

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And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

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Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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Do not press an enemy at bay.

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To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.

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Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.

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