On War Quotes.

1. "War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

2. "The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

3. "There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

4. "If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

5. "[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity"
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

6. "Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

7. "The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

8. "The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

9. "Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is so much the sooner will ridicule and contempt drive it from real life."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War

10. "We propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch of part, and, last of all, the whole in all its relations-therefore to advance from the simple to the complex. But it is necessary for us to commence with a glance at the nature of the whole, because it is particularly necessary that in the consideration of any of the parts their relation to the whole be kept constantly in view. We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of War used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavors to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance. War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will."
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War