Carl von Clausewitz Strong Quotations

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

The best strategy is always to be very strong.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.