Top 12 Quotes About Lincoln Mcclellan

#1. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Abraham Lincoln

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#2. Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

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#3. It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Saint John Chrysostom

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#4. A special gift for a special Lady.

Anne Bishop

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#5. If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

Anzia Yezierska

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#6. 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

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#7. That doesn't mean they're not still angling for something. The most charitable people in the world are choosing altruism, not because it's a noble endeavor, but because being noble fulfills a need within them.

Lindsay Buroker

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#8. My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

Abraham Lincoln

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#9. One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

Irvin D. Yalom

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#10. Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

Anais Nin

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#11. If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Abraham Lincoln

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#12. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

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