4th of july Quote by John Burroughs

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

— Rupert Friend

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot...

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there…

— Douglas MacArthur

I wish all guns had blanks, and that's all we shot out of guns, because then I'd recommend that everyone has as many guns…

— Cameron Britton

“Batteries of machine guns firing point-blank at assaulting troops could turn an infantry attack into a mass suicide.”

— Russell Freedman

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

— Wendell Phillips

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

— Eric Holmes

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

— Shane West

You whites make all the ammunition.

— Red Cloud

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

— Napoleon Bonaparte