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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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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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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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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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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
Robert E. Lee
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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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.
Robert E. Lee
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
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It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
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I was too weak to defend, so I attacked
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I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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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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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
Robert E. Lee
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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The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.
Robert E. Lee
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
Robert E. Lee
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
Robert E. Lee
