Against Quote by Nigel Benn

Nobody believed me when I said I'd beat Gerald McClellan.

— Nigel Benn

Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending…

— Wesley Pruden

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It…

— Daniel Harvey Hill

“McClellan knew that Jackson’s force was relatively small, so he only sent 16,000 men under the command of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks. A…

— Charles River Editors

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

— Yogi Berra

I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay…

— William Lee Miller

“The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more…

— Edmund Kirby Smith