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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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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In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.
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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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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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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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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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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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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective but such cases are rare.
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