Artillery Quotes - Page 2

• The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

  John J. Pershing

  Military, War, Majority

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• The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Troops, Needs

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• The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Second Amendment

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• No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Horse, Military

  "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems".

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• The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

  Walt Whitman

  Military, Gun, Giants

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

  Ernie Pyle

  Military

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• Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

  Stendhal

  Weapons, Feminine, Found

  Stendhal (2008). “The Red and the Black”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Fire, Battle

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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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

  War, Army, Fighting

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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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

  Baseball, War, Mlb

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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, and cavalry.

  James Monroe

  War, Men, May

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• Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

  Hermann Goring

  Powerful, Military, Gun

  Radio broadcast in 1936. "The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage" by William L. Safire, p. 178, 1968.

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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

  Country, Historical, Soldier

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Gun, Literature, Enough

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Fire, Hands

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• I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That's what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you're not aware of the limitations of what you're up against... it's like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Two, Track

  Source: www.chud.com

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• All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

  Laurence Sterne

  Love, Cutting, Knowing

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.493, eBookIt.com

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• Heaven's great artillery.

  Richard Crashaw

  Life, Heaven, Great Art

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.170

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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

  Women, Home, August

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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

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261

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• This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Moving, Fall

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• The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

  Ernest Renan

  Epic, Age, Heroism

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• Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

  Walter Raleigh

  Light, Pops, Glances

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