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The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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
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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 no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
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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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The devil's name is dullness.
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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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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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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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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
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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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I was too weak to defend, so I attacked
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There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
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I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
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