“There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.”

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

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“It is far easier to make war than peace.”

“My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. ”

“War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.”

“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”

“There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.”

“A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”