War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.