Infantry Quotes

Infantry Quote of the day

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

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.

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

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 infantry is at an end

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

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 fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

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 and noise exposure.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

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 kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

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.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

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 dead...'

You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.