Robert E. Lee Quotes

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• Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!
• 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…
• 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…
• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.
• I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment…
• Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
• 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…
• But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
• All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally…
• 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.…
• We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.
• Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
• 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…
• You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the…
• You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are…
• Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and…
• Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.
• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
• I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have…
• The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin…

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