Infantry Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the…
— Christopher Flynn
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Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under…
— George S. Patton
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The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will…
— Winston Churchill
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Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In…
— Louis Simpson
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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity…
— George Kennedy
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There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As…
— Vasily Grossman
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I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
— Geraldo Rivera
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If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.
— Georgy Zhukov
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The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st…
— Carlo D'Este
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At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can…
— Arthur Fremantle
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We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an…
— Daniel Harvey Hill
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I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
— Bill Mauldin
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War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.
— Ernest Hemingway
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As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our…
— Heinz Guderian
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This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here,…
— Winston Churchill
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Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
— J F C Fuller
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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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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in…
— Douglas MacArthur
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...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational…
— Mark Steyn
Who Wrote These Infantry Quotes
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