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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee
Age: 63 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 19
Died: 1870
Died: October 12
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Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.
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He has lost his left arm, but I my right.
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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
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There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
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Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
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Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
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There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
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