Army Forge Quotes

His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause.
-General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge. ~ David Halberstam

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of? ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion. ~ Martin O'Malley

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences. ~ Josefa Iloilo

We forge the chains we wear in life. ~ Charles Dickens

I want my army to be an army of the living God. ~ Stonewall Jackson

The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party. ~ Paul Martin

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invinsible.. ~ Mao Zedong

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail. ~ Bob Dylan

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

I hadn't thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose. ~ Allen Ginsberg

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions ... ~ Louis De La Forge

Discipline is the soul of an army. ~ George Washington

An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention! ~ Aditi Mathur Kumar

An army of the people is invincible! ~ Mao Zedong

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. ~ Clint Eastwood

History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army ~ Joseph Stalin

By the end of the day, the Gladers had turned into a small army. A very pathetic, ill-prepared Army, Thomas thought, but an army all the same. ~ James Dashner

And now she has you seizing control of my army."
"Your army? I thought this was Gaunt's."
"So did he. ~ Michael J. Sullivan

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. ~ James Earl Jones

It's not the size of the army but the power within the army. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ~ Jimmy Page

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. ~ Wilhelm II

Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon. ~ A. Ashley Straker

She says with that misty
far-away look in her eyes. Like conjunctivitis. ~ Aditi Mathur Kumar

Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state. ~ Voltaire

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army. ~ Ed Royce

A general is powerless without an army.
An army is directionless without a general.
To win battles a general and an army need each other. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. ~ Che Guevara

An army without discipline is worse than an army without soldiers. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away. ~ Carl Levin

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. ~ Will.i.am

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. ~ John Pomfret

I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S. ~ Dilma Rousseff

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. ~ Jubal Early

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Teachers - at kindergarten level, as at university level - form a noble army accomplishing daily feats, never praised, never decorated. An army without drums, without gleaming uniforms. This army, thwarting traps and snares, everywhere plants the flag of knowledge and morality. ~ Mariama Ba

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying. ~ Joel Stein

There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery. ~ John Coleman

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here. ~ Joyce Banda

We're going to need a bigger army," I said. ~ Mark Lawrence

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition. ~ Julia Bacha

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them. ~ John Redwood

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers. ~ Sun Tzu

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. ~ Jack Steinberger

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. ~ H.L. Mencken

One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire. ~ Crystal Woods

Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
" ... unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army." ~ Gemma Hussey

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army ~ John Terraine

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ~ Sun Tzu

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. ~ T.F. Hodge

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. ~ Sun Tzu

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance ~ U.S. Army

The unyielding army will not win. ~ Laozi

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. ~ Robert Duvall

My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms. ~ Andrew Forge

It's easier to be just one more soldier in a giant army than being the whole army by yourself. ~ Sylvain Neuvel

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ~ Mao Zedong

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. ~ Bill Richardson

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep. ~ Alexander The Great

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply. ~ Kelly Miller

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. ~ John Abizaid

Oh Pia, I feel GOOD! Fully recovered!' he always says in a dazzling tone that tells everyone within a ten-kilometre radius that he's not. ~ Aditi Mathur Kumar

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army. ~ A.E. Coppard

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country. ~ Sam Manekshaw

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store. ~ Babette March

On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~ Lee Child

Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it? ~ Gabrielle

All those years, waiting for the Army, and it turns out the Army is us. ~ Justin Cronin

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom. ~ Friedrich Hayek

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Take care, Friars!" he cried. "If the yearning is broken off for even an instant, the wings become chains again. Stay vigilant, fight, keep the torch of your soul burning day and night. Strike! Forge the wings! I'm going-I am in a hurry to speak to God. I'm going… These are my final words: Strike! Forge the wings! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains. ~ Roger Federer

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. ~ Mel Brooks

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. ~ Edward Abbey

Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax! ~ Markus Heitz

An army marches on its stomach. ~ Pierce Brown

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. ~ Mickey Mantle

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. ~ John Lennon

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. ~ James Madison

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. ~ Averroes

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ~ Mort Walker

I feel an army in my fist. ~ Friedrich Schiller

In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq. ~ Seymour Hersh

What this world needs is a new kind of army ... A army of LOVE & KINDNESS ~ Timothy Pina

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army. ~ H. H. Asquith

A starving army is actually worse than none. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated. ~ William Wordsworth

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused! ~ Christine Lavin

The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor. ~ Dwayne Johnson

We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism. ~ Mao Zedong

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage. ~ Nelson DeMille

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living. ~ Jack O'Connell