Infantry quotes

Infantry

9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

9 quotes
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway Novelist

"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."

Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor

"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."

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