Infantry Quotes

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

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

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.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

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

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.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.