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Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
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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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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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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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
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I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
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History teaches us hope.
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The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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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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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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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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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more you should never wish to do less.
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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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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
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Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.
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