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All this has been my fault.

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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Robert Edward Lee
General Lee
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General Robert E. Lee
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.
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Every student must be a gentleman.
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I was too weak to defend, so I attacked
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations
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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
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Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.
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The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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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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As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
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I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.
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For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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