Quotes About Halleck

I have been a stranger in a strange land,'" Halleck quoted.

I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land,'" Halleck intoned. "Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed," the Duke said.

Halleck was a continual amazement—a head full of songs, quotations, and flowery phrases…and the heart of an assassin when it came to dealing with the Harkonnens.

Henry Halleck was a pedant and a military bureaucrat, but he was not an easy man to fool,

Halleck had defended Grant from criticism after Shiloh, he still had reservations about Grant and relegated him to the largely meaningless position of second in command.

What Lincoln probably did not know was that Halleck suffered severely from hemorrhoids, which grew even more painful under stress, and that he was taking opium to ease the pain.