Enemy Artillery Fire

Famous quotes containing the words enemy, artillery and/or fire:

“Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Men, you are all marksmen—don’t one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
—Israel Putnam (1718–1790)