Infantry Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  War, Gun, Fire

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• My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Josephine de Beauharnais

  Beautiful, Garden, First Impression

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

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Special, Lines

  "Combat Jobs Are Open To Women But Filling Slots Will Take A While". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.

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• The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Writing, Korea, Achievement

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• This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Home, America

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• 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

  Children, Infantry Division, Office

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  War, Boys, People

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3845, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

  Bruce Catton

  Horse, War, Men

  Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

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• Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time.

  Richard Yates

  Hair, Two, Watches

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.213, Random House

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• 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

  Girl, Horse, War

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Police, Historical

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• Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Flattery, Negotiation

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• 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

  War, Hero, Soldier

  Anatol Rapoport's statement (1988) as quoted in William Poundstone "Prisoner's Dilemma", 1992.

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Matter

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• Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.

  Louis Simpson

  Lying, War, Mean

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• Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Simple, Skills

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• 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

  Hurt, Father, War

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others say it's a vast infantry on the march. But I say the most beautiful thing is the beloved." How political can you get?

  Sam Hamill

  Beautiful, Political, Riding

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

  Arthur Fremantle

  War, Texas, Yards

  Arthur Fremantle (2008). “Three Months in the Southern States”, p.75, Applewood Books

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• I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

  Nelson DeMille

  War, Book, Army

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.

  Ho Chi Minh

  White, Light, Perfection

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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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• 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

  Infantry Division, Soldier, Gold

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• The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. On the 70th anniversary of that momentous event, John C. McManus’s tale of courage under fire is a vivid reminder that freedom isn’t free and that when the chips are down stalwart American soldiers will always answer the call of duty.

  Carlo D'Este

  Beach, Fire, Hands

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• 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

  Wall, Gay, Soldier

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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