Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 B. H. Liddell Hart quotesB. H. Liddell Hart QuotesB. H. Liddell Hart In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there; a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.~ B. H. Liddell Hart Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.~ B. H. Liddell Hart The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.~ B. H. Liddell Hart Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print