Quotes by Infantry The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry. Bill Mauldin pacifist infantry way Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig infantry moral battle I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going. Eddie Slovik infantry week knows 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 infantry crime war If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there. Georgy Zhukov minefields infantry military Artillery conquers and infantry occupies. J. F. C. Fuller infantry conquer military I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up. Mel Brooks infantry combat bridges 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. Napoleon Bonaparte infantry battle war Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos infantry flattery negotiation