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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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There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
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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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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
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I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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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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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
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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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What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
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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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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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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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