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I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry. -- Geraldo Rivera
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division. -- Ernest Hemingway
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going. -- Eddie Slovik
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. -- Bill Mauldin
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
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. -- George Kennedy
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division. -- Charles B. Rangel
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 -- Duncan Hunter
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me. -- Ashton Holmes
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history. -- John J. Pershing
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 -- George S. Patton
...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... -- Mark Steyn
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. -- Walter Kohn
War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Artillery conquers and infantry occupies. -- J. F. C. Fuller
The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry. -- Bill Mauldin
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. -- Douglas Haig
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. -- Douglas Haig
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up. -- Mel Brooks
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight. -- Amy Lowell
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place. -- John Buford
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
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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
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. -- Etgar Keret
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. -- Max Beckmann
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without. -- Ernie Pyle
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove. -- Zebulon Pike
I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive. -- Cutter Hodierne
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments. -- John Eisenhower
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. -- Jim Webb
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do? -- Adam Driver
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars. -- Pete Hegseth
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes. -- Garry Wills
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career. -- Jim Webb
I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations. -- Harold Feinstein
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero. -- Anatol Rapoport
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. -- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements. -- Sebastian Junger
If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there. -- Georgy Zhukov
I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. -- Michael McCormick (Vietnam Veteran)
All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women. -- Renee Montagne
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
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...' -- Christopher Flynn
We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a great thing to charge a battery of artillery or an earthwork lined with infantry. -- Daniel Harvey Hill
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. -- Sappho
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. -- Renee Montagne
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 -- Heinz Guderian
The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks. -- Winston Churchill

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