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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
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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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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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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What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.
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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 like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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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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