"I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land."

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Source : George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.82, Digital Scanning Inc

George B. McClellan

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“I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.”
“Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.”
“I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.”
“The Senate is an unknowing world”
“I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.”

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“The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.”
“Those who spell Magic with a K aren't.”
“It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.”

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