“By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.”

“What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.”

“He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks.”

“But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.”

“The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.”

“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.”