Foot Soldiers Quotes



Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin

… the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
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Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.
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Conrad III
Conrad III

At the same time the Turks did not cease to attack and slaughter the crowd of foot-soldiers who were unable to follow the army. We pitied the fate of our suffering people, perishing by famine and by the arrows of the enemy; and by the advice of our princes and barons, we led the army back from that desert land to the sea, in order that it might regain its strength. We preferred to preserve the army for greater achievements rather than to win so bloody a victory over archers.
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This is an early example of spinning. The Crusaders had been routed very badly. Conrad, attempting to report to the home front, describes the event as a strategic retreat.

John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat

What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.
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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.
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Michael Foreman
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In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

We could create a Virginia cavalry regiment specifically for the sons of planters, youths whose indolence or education, has unfitted them for foot-service.
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Men were being recruited to volunteer for the new American Revolutionary army throughout the colonies. However, the sons of many Virginia planters were neither recruited, nor did most of them volunteer. The reality was that few of them had an education that might fit them for many of the military needs. However, they were not very fit to be foot-soldiers (infantry) as they were mostly, having lived on a slave plantation where they did not work and were truly indolent and would not have the discipline or endurance to march long distances. Jefferson came up with this idea: Create a special Cavalry unit. They could all serve together and would not be a bad example to other men, and they all could ride a horse as that was their primary mode of transportation. This is another of the examples negative effects on whites what Negro slavery wrought.