Infantry Quotes
47 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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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
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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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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
— Eddie Slovik
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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery,…
— James Monroe
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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
— Mark Twain
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
— Walt Whitman
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Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing…
— Richard Yates
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The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
— Sebastian Junger
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Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the…
— Robert Jordan
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I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see…
— Unknown Author
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in…
— Charles B. Rangel
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In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other…
— John Eisenhower
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can…
— Adam Driver
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From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus…
— Jim Webb
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General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this…
— John Buford
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally…
— Walter Kohn
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On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from…
— Max Beckmann
Who Wrote These Infantry Quotes
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