Infantry Quotes

47 Infantry quotes by 41 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry. — Geraldo Rivera
If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there. — Georgy Zhukov
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… — Unknown Author
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
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
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. — Bill Mauldin
War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead. — Ernest Hemingway
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
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
Artillery conquers and infantry occupies. — J F C Fuller
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
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
...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
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up. — Mel Brooks
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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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