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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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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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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 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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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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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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All this has been my fault.
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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every student must be a gentleman.
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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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The devil's name is dullness.
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Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.
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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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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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