Artillery Quotes
81 Artillery quotes by 68 unique authors
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Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
— Andrew Jackson
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The Guns, Thank God, The Guns...
— Rudyard Kipling
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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 and…
— Rudyard Kipling
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In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his…
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
— George S. Patton
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The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.
— John J. Pershing
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Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
— Ernie Pyle
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Artillery is the god of war.
— Joseph Stalin
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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!
— Walt Whitman
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Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.
— Winston Churchill
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more…
— Fritz Kreisler
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The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
— Ernest Renan
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,…
— Honore de Balzac
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War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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It is with artillery that war is made.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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God is on the side with the best artillery
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great battles are won with artillery.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The…
— Gerald R. Ford
Who Wrote These Artillery Quotes
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