Artillery Quotes

• Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Obstinate

  "The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations". Book Robert Heinl, Jr., 1966.

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• The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Enemy, Troops

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• I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Knows

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• Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

  Frederick The Great

  Military, Add, Ugly

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• God is on the side with the best artillery

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Sides

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• Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Crowds, Destructive

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• Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, Conquer, Infantry

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• 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

  Military, War, Fighting

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• Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Firsts, Prime

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• The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear

  Fritz Kreisler

  Sound, Roaring, Welcome

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Great battles are won with artillery.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Great Battle

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• Artillery is the god of war.

  Joseph Stalin

  Military, War, God Of War

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• Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

  Norman Cousins

  Gun, Survival, Never Quit

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Desperate, Situation

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• It is with artillery that war is made.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Made

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• Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Military, Gun, Feelings

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• As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Sides

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Batteries, Fields

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• The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military

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• The Last Argument of Kings.

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Finals, Lasts

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• The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Military, Gun, Thank God

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Dog, Kings, Military

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