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Artillery Quotes
From battlefield gunnery to metaphors of will.
This page mixes literal references to field artillery and military brigades with figurative uses of the word - opinion as "artillery," or willpower described as one's "heaviest artillery." Both angles show up in the real sample posts.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
- Barbed Wire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020