American civil war Quote by Stephen W. Sears

“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world and this…

— Susan Orlean

“The few men he’d slept with had expected him to top, and it was easier to go with the flow than to correct them.…

— Amy Aislin

“Lee wrote, “[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make…

— John Steinbeck

“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss,…

— John Marsden

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought…

— Marguerite Oswald

“In a few minutes, Lee and Grant reached across to each other from their horses and shook hands. When they met again, Grant would…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful,…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Lee had made it pretty clear that I meant something to him and this was the cause of the joy that I couldn’t quite…

— Kristen Ashley

“Climbing hills was never one of my great ambitions. Perhaps I was just lazy, but I admit--now that I've been climbing a hill every…

— Gene Wilder

Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he…

— Conan O'Brien

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to…

— Jim Webb