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Every student must be a gentleman.

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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Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.
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We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
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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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There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
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I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations
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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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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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Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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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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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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Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
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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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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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All this has been my fault.
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