Quotes About Moltke

#1. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Vera Nazarian

#2. In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#3. In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#4. I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

Lance Wubbels

#5. People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

#6. No plan survives the battle field.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#7. The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#8. No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#9. Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me
and in the end, that is a man's duty.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#10. The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#11. Eternal peace is a dream - and not even a beautiful one.

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#12. The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change. The Kaiser could not change Moltke's plan nor could Kitchener alter Henry Wilson's nor Lanrezac alter Joffre's.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. Strategy is a system of expedients

Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

#14. Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. Moltke closed upon that rigid phrase, the basis for every major German mistake, the phrase that launched the invasion of Belgium and the submarine war against the United States, the inevitable phrase when military plans dictate policy - and once settled it cannot be altered.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#16. No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Mike Cohn

#17. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.

Betsy Schow

#18. Every war is a national misfortune.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke