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War Quotes by Robert E. Lee
- 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…
- 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…
- But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
- 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,…
- 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…
- It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
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