James Reacher

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“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.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War