Robert E. Lee Quotes

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• Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or…
• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the…
• A land without memories is a people without liberty.
• A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
• The devil's name is dullness.
• Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent…
• A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly…
• I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we…
• With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make…
• There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you,…
• Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
• Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have…
• Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
• It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say,…
• We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray…
• I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
• Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it…
• You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.
• There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
• A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

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