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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

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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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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Every student must be a gentleman.
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No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.
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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 a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
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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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Traveler is my only companion I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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