In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
“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
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of… — Daniel Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
“At least we have the element of surprise." "FQ$k surprise, sir. I'd rather have artillery!" - Sergeant Major John Brown (Power Games,… — Richard Peters 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
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
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
“Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact,” says a commandant, “anybody — or, rather, everybody did. The general idea is after such-and-such system, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll 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
For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country,… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image