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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. (Robert E. Lee)
My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian. View quote
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Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans. View quote
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The Abolitionist... must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion. View quote
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Honesty in its widest sense is always admirable. The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. View quote
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The devil's name is dullness. View quote
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The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It is intended for 'perpetual Union,' so expressed in the preamble. View quote
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To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. View quote
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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. View quote
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The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman. View quote
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Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand. (Robert E. Lee)
Tell Hill he must come up ... Strike the tent. View quote
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Human virtue should be equal to human calamity. View quote
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Ulysses S. Grant, you invite me to lunch then show up an hour late drunk? View quote
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If the Union is dissolved and the Government disrupted, I shall return to my native State and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense will draw my sword on none. View quote
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I shall carry with me to the grave the most grateful recollections of your kind consideration and your name and fame will always be dear to me. Save for defense of my native state, I never desire again to draw my sword. View quote
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I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race. View quote
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My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them or indisposed me to serve them. View quote
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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. View quote
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While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. View quote
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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. (Robert E. Lee)
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 set. View quote
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It is history that teaches us to hope. View quote
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We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman. View quote
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We must forgive our enemies. View quote
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