More From Karl Von Clausewitz
- "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
- "War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
- "War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
More In Politics
- "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."― Henry Adams
- "Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many."― James McGreevey
- "It doesn’t matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can’t speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community."― Seymour Hersh