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Politics Is The Womb In Which War Develops - Where Its Outlines Already Exist In Their Hidden Rudimentary Form, Like The Characteristics Of Living Creatures In Their Embryos.

War Is The Province Of Danger.

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.

To Discover How Much Of Our Resources Must Be Mobilized For War, We Must First Examine Our Political Aim And That Of The Enemy. We Must Gauge The Strength And Situation Of The Opposite State. We Must Gauge The Character And Abilities Of Its Government And People And Do The Same In Regard To Our Own. Finally, We Must Evaluate The Political Sympathies Of Other States And The Effect The War May Have On Them.

Great Things Alone Can Make A Great Mind, And Petty Things Will Make A Petty Mind Unless A Man Rejects Them As Completely Alien.