Quote of the Day for 2015-11-23

"Weak men are apt to be cruel."

— George Savile (1633-1695) Moral Thoughts and Reflections

Portrait of Adolph Hitler in the office of his Berghof residence (circa 1936) (photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-24

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695) Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

George B. McClellan, Major General in the Union Army, who built the Army of the Potomac, but was so over cautious that he accomplished nothing in the Eastern Theater of the U.S. Civil War. (Photograph by Matthew Brady, 1861)