The Guns, Thank God, The Guns...

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

— Ernest Renan

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea,…

— William Shakespeare

Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.

— Antony Blinken

No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse…

— Rudyard Kipling

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets…

— Chelsea Handler

Great battles are won with artillery.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Artillery fire is cheap, American lives are priceless”

— Robert Babcock

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

— Walter Raleigh

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

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight,…

— Ernie Pyle

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group…

— Barack Obama