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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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Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
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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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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
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I will attack no matter what and win the war!
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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
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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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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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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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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
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Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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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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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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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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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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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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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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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.
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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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