Robert E. Lee Quotes

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• Teach him to deny himself.
• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold…
• I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring…
• All this has been my fault.
• I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
• The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
• It is history that teaches us to hope.
• Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?
• Any victory would be dear at such a price.
• 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…
• I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
• 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.
• 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,…
• I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true…
• Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
• ...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by…
• Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even…
• I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower…
• All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two,…
• 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…

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