George Mcclellan Quotes & Sayings

Love is merely a madness. — William Shakespeare

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country. — George B. McClellan

The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The Original Gorilla", about as intelligent as ever. What a specimen to be at the head of our affairs now. — George B. McClellan

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people. — Scott McClellan

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land. — George B. McClellan

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past. — George B. McClellan

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. — George B. McClellan

The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur? — Christopher Hitchens

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them. — George Whitefield

I will not move my army until I am absolutely ready. — George B. McClellan

All quiet along the Potomac. — George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac. — George B. McClellan

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan

She was mine. I was hers. A truth that would never change. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express. — Alberto Giacometti

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. — George B. McClellan

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world. — Michael McCaul

I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864. — George Will

He (recently-appointed and new-to-command Robert E Lee) will be timid in the irresolute in action. — George B. McClellan

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Oregon almost never got too hot. An Oregon governor must have passed a law a long, long time ago that said Oregon had to always have moderate temperatures. — Colleen Houck

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror. — Hannah Arendt

But it was too late for happy endings. I was already dead. — Aimee Carter

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood. — George B. McClellan

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home! — George B. McClellan

For suddenly it had changed into that gear when time is slower - as when, falling off a ladder, one has time to think: I shall land so, just there, and I must turn in the air slightly ... All this in a space of time normally too short for any thought at all. But we are wrong in dividing the mind's machinery from time: they are the same. It is only in such sharp emphatic moments that we recognize this fact. — Doris Lessing

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else. — Katharine Hepburn

Although I am good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers. — Alison Bechdel

Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off. — Wesley Pruden