Carl von Clausewitz Quote
The closer these practical probabilities drive war toward the absolute, the more the belligerent states are involved and drawn into its vortex, the clearer appear the connections between its separate actions, and the more imperative the need not to take the first step without considering the last.
On War (1832–4) bk. 8, ch. 3, tr. M. Howard and P. Paret
