“One must demand the impossible to ensure that the impossible will be achieved.”

Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke (1800 to 1891)

Helmuth von Moltke, in full Helmuth Karl Bernhard, Count (graf) von Moltke, was Chief of the Prussian and German General Staff (1858–88) and the architect of the victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1871).