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Tag Name "Artillery" (52)

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Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
J. F. C. Fuller
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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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Artillery is the god of war.
Joseph Stalin
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Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.
Frederick The Great
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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 equipment.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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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 military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.
Gerald R. Ford
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin
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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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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.
Lord Dunsany
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The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
Michael Hastings
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Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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 become demoralized and will be destroyed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great battles are won with artillery.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
Adrian Rogers
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
Paullina Simons
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Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
Ernie Pyle
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