Artillery Quotations

My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

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.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

There is no question of Indian army crossing LoC to help rebuild bunkers. All our bunkers are safe and built to withstand artillery shells.

We've seen a continuing build up of artillery in the western part of Kosovo so he can shell into Albania...he's hitting civilians,

If the artillery doesn't explode when it's fired up, it will come down and explode on the ground,

I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.

It is a deliberate campaign against the army. We are professional. We would not fire shells at a sensitive time like this. We have not fired artillery or mortars at them for four years now.

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

Sure, the North Koreans can do tremendous damage in South Korea through rocket attacks, artillery and missiles but invading the South is totally unrealistic in this stage of the game.

Why would we want to have our valuable resources underneath the artillery of North Korea? ... Our high-value assets are now disposed where they would not be under immediate fire. It gives us the operational agility we need.

This was an assigned mission. This was a target that we knew to be a military target -- a command post with artillery pieces and other equipment.

There are heavy concentrations of artillery along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. There are only 14 roads into Kosovo -- two from Macedonia. These roads are mined. The bridges are mined. There are built in ... tank and artillery positions along lines of communication.

We have examined all of our sources of intelligence, what towns and villages have been damaged primarily by fires set by the Serb forces as they've gone through, as well as by shooting them up with artillery and tanks and those kinds of things,

The Sycamore unit was chosen for security purposes since part of the training for field artillery units specifically involves security-type tasks,

Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl

It was common to see young mothers with small children, who have husbands at war, walking around at the Civic Center grounds. That's why I offered for Jessica to come to Covington County. I want her to share her story with the wives who have husbands in the Bravo Battery 1/117 Field Artillery Unit that left out of Covington County. She is very enthused about the possible chance to talk to the wives in Covington County.

That is what artillery is all about. You had to be good in math and science and you had to work as a team. The crew or detachment of 10 men really had to depend on each other.

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target. And we have been targeting that, and have now, we believe, removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo -- perhaps as much as 90 percent of the artillery in Kosovo in the last several weeks -- by attacking massed artillery along the borders.

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

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

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

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

Great battles are won with artillery.

It is with artillery that war is made.

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

God is on the side with the best artillery

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