Robert E. Lee Quotes - Page 2

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Slavery, Engaging

  Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.

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• 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 never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

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  Rights, People, Feelings

  "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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  In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

  Robert E. Lee

  Strength, Bible, Failure

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• Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

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  War, Connections, Speak

  "Lee the American". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 226, 1912.

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• All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

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  War, Virginia, Two

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• The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

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  Enemy, Texan

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• It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

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  Walking Away, Doors, Feelings

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• The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

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  Education, Teaching, Learning

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 175), 1977.

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• Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Bullying

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

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  Thinking, Suffering, Reproach

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.325, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

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  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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• Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

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  Perseverance, Determination, Past

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• Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

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  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

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  Peace, War, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

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  4th Of July, Son, Abandon

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• A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

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  Love, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.116, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

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  Prayer, Thankfulness, Guidance

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

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  Peace, War, Two Sides

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• You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

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  Children, Honesty, Mean

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

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  War, Men, Faces

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

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  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

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  War, Party, Justice

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.232, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

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  Ungrateful, Mars, World

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

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  Men, Patriotism, Desire

  Letter to General P.G.T. Beauregard, October 03, 1865.

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• It is history that teaches us to hope.

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  Hope, War, Hopeful

  Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.

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