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• Pity the warrior who is contented to crawl about in this beggardom of rules, which are too bad for genius, over which it can set itself superior, over which it can perchance make merry!
• formulated by Von der Goltz in excuse for the action of the late President Kruger in 1899: "The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country."
• business--a "form of human competition greatly resembling War,"
• the task becomes ever greater as, fortunately for humanity, the opportunities for gathering experience become more rare.
• WAR IS ONLY A CONTINUATION OF STATE POLICY BY OTHER MEANS.