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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
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Burg bei Magdeburg
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War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
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Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.
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We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
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Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.
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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.
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The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
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With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
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