Von Clausewitz Quotes

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

Never fight against heavy odds if you can hurl your own force on only a part of your enemy and crush it.

In war, everything is simple, but even the simplest thing is difficult.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The side that is compelled to buy peace does not fare as well as the one that buys victory.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

War is the province of chance. No other human activity gives it quite the fre

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