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Quotes from An Exchange With a Civil War Historian — James M. McPherson

born 1936 United States

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People are going to dislike you if you make a decision, even if it turns out to be the right one.

An Exchange With a Civil War Historian (1995)

The risk of making a decision that's wrong is so enormous that sometimes it just crushes people so that they can't make any decision at all because they're afraid of making the wrong decision. And that's exactly what McClellan's problem was.

An Exchange With a Civil War Historian (1995)

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