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If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.

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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

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...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

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I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

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The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

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Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

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It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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