Classic Quotes

"In Vietnam, it was the infantry that found the enemy. But it was the Field Artillery who
killed the enemy." - Unkown

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"A Little More Grape Capt. Bragg" General Zachery Taylor, Battle of Buena Vista - Feb 23, 1847"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon"

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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." - Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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 the Great

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"Artillery conquers and infantry occupies." - J.F.C. Fuller

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"In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor." - Gen Douglas MacArthur

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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." - Field Marshal Montgomery

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

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"I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did." - Gen. George S. Patton

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"Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield." - Winston Churchill

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"Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . ." - Napoleon

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"If you don't have enough artillery, quit." - General Richard Cavasos

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"The artillery was my strongest tool. Often it was my only reserve…I repeatedly said it was more a matter of the infantry supporting the artillery than the artillery supporting the infantry…I wish I knew the countless times that positions were taken or held due solely to TOT's…" - Major Gen R.O. Barton (Commanding U.S. 4th Infantry Division WWII)

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"The thanks of the infantry, in my opinion, must be treasured more by every artilleryman than all decorations and citations." - Colonel Georg Bruchmuller

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"Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery." - General Andrew Jackson after the Battle of New Orleans, 1815

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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." - Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall

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"Our artillery...the Germans feared it almost more than anything we had." - Ernie Pyle, 'Brave Men,' 1944

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"If, after the battle is over, your infantry don't like you, you are a poor artilleryman." - Captain Henry Reilly (The Field Artillery Journal, September-October 1944)

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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets." - General William Tecumseh Sherman

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"Ultima ratio regum" (The final argument of kings) - Inscription on french cannons, on order of Louis XIV

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"Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets." - Unknown

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"There is NO job in the Field Artillery for the weak, the timid or the indecisive." - Unknown

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"Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl." - Unknown

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"Gunners will always fight together, drink together, laugh together, and morn together."  - Unknown

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A Toast to the Guns:
"By them we live,
For them we would die.
Whatever the Mission,
We'll give it a try.

We'll serve them with Honor
For they are the ones;
That make us Artillerymen,
So here's to the Guns:
TO THE GUNS!!"
- Unknown 

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"You can't describe the moral lift,
when in the fight your spirits weary
hears above the hostile fire,
Your own artillery.
Shells score the air like wavy hair
from a forward battery.
As regimental cannon crack
While from positions further back,
in bitter sweet song overhead
crashing discordantly
Division's pounding joins the attack;
Mother like she belches shell;
Glorious it flies, and well,
As, with a hissing screaming squall,
A roaring furnace, giving all,
she sears a path for the infantry...."
- Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin," 1943"

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St Barbara of the Artillery Corp,
Be at the bursting of the doors of doom,
And in the dark deliver us,
Amen."
- Irish field Artillery poem"

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Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volley'ed and thundered." - The Charge of the Light Brigade 

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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries. - Ambrose Bierce 

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"The Guns, Thank God, The Guns. . ." - Rudyard Kipling 

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"No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods--his horse and all its sadlery 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 

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"The first shot is for the Devil, the second for God, and only the third for the King." - Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd." - Napoleon Bonaparte 

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"With Artillery, War is made." - Napoleon Bonaparte 

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"The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm." - Gen. John J. Pershing 

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"Where a goat can go, a man can go, where a man can go, he can drag a gun." - Colonel William Phillips 1777 

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"There is no other arm of the service whose efficiency is so directly dependent upon its officers as is the field artillery." - Major General William J. Snow, Letter in "The Shrapnel-1924" - The Field Artillery School 1 March 1924 

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"The work for giants...to serve well the guns!" - Walt Whitman

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See more artillery-related quotes on Operation Iraqi Freedom or Battle for Fallujah.