Saturday, October 24, 2015

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)

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