Infantry Quotes

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

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

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.

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

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 the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

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

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

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

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

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