Famous quotes containing the words forge, military and/or academy:
“We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the worldintrospection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerablythat the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)
“Were in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alikeand I dont think there really is a distinction between the twoare always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)