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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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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more you should never wish to do less.
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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
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Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
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We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.
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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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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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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.
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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
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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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Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!
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We must forgive our enemies.
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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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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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We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.
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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
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