_“Among us we have a man of singular character--one Phocion. He seems not to know that he lives in our modern age and at incomparable Athens. He is poor, yet is not humiliated by his poverty; he does good, yet never boasts of it; and gives advice, though he is certain it will not be followed. He possesses talent without ambition and serves the state without regard to his own interest. At the head of the army, he contents himself with restoring discipline and beating the enemy. When addressing the assembly, he is equally unmoved by the disapprobation or the applause of the multitude._ _“We laugh at his singularities and we have discovered an admirable secret for revenging ourselves for his contempt. He is the only general we have left--but we do not employ him; he is the most upright and perhaps the most intelligent of our counsellors--but we do not listen to him. It is true, we cannot make him change his principles, but, by Heaven, neither shall he induce us to change ours; and it never shall be said that by the example of his superannuated virtues and the influence of his antique teachings, Phocion was able to correct the most polished and amiable people in the world.”--Callimedon._ GENERALSHIP CHESS GENERALSHIP _“In Chess the soldiers are the men and the General is the mind of the player.”--Emanuel Lasker._ * * * * * _“It is neither riches nor armies that make a nation formidable; but the courage and genius of the Commander-in-Chief.”--Frederic the Great._ * * * * * _“Ho! Ye Macedonians! Because together we have conquered the World, think ye to give law to the blood of Achilles and to withstand the dictates of the Son of Jupiter?_ _“Choose ye a new commander, draw yourselves up for battle; I will lead against you those Persians whom ye so despise, and if you are victorious, by Mehercule, I will do everything that you desire.”--Alexander the Great._ * * * * * _“It is I and I alone, who give you your glory and your success.”--Napoleon._ * * * * * _“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, My ways, saith the Lord.”--Holy Bible._ _By authority indisputable, the ex-cathedra dictum of the greatest of the Great Captains, we have been informed that the higher processes of the military system, eternally will remain unchanged._ _As a necessary corollary, it follows that these processes always have been and always will be comprehended and employed by every great Captain._ _Equally, it is self-evident, that capability to comprehend these higher processes, united with ability properly to utilize them to win battles and campaigns, constitutes genius for Warfare._