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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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No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.
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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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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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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
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We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.
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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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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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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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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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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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The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
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All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
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To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
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