"An army's effectiveness depends on its size,..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.”

“The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”

“In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.”

“Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.”

“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”

“An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.”

“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”

“Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.”