Infantry Quotes

• 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
  • Army
  • Faces
  • Ships

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

  

  Georgy Zhukov
  • Attack
  • Infantry
  • Minefields

• I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Division
  • Republic
  • Infantry

• The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Army
  • Division
  • Replacements

• 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.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Crime
  • Asks

• 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
  • I Love
  • Won
  • Comforts

• 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
  • War
  • Father
  • Hurt