"The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated."
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"The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side."
"If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side."
"I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction."
"In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle."
"Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle."
"What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens."
"I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse."
"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar."
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
"I had my own battle tactics."
"I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them."
"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
"If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle."
"Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done."
"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
"If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean."
"Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow."
"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order."
"A man prepared has half fought the battle."