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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.
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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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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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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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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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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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Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!
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There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
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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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I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
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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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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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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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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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