“We had also learned many simple things about combat that war games and training can’t teach you, but can only be acquired… — Michael Bilder Copy Share Image
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
“The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines.” — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced… — Tom Kettle Copy Share Image
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to… — Rick Hillier Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“The artillery officer had mastered the technique of firing accurately in the dark by registering the guns beforehand, that is, determining the… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns,… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action? — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines… — TemitOpe Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Copy Share Image
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard. — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I… — John Buford Copy Share Image
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
![“And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous…” quote by Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1e6/thomas-carlyle-207_artillery_and-there-are-ben-jonson-and-william-sha_2359052.png)
