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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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 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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I will attack no matter what and win the war!
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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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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
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I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
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Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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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 are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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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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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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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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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
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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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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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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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I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
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