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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.

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  Army, Order, Soldier

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• 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. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

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  Country, Powerful, Men

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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.

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  Prayer, Mean, Hands

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• We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

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  Fall, Energy, Defeat

  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.545, Madison & Adams

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• There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

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  Perseverance, Firsts, Accomplish

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• The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

  Robert E. Lee

  Ifs

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• 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.

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  Honesty, Real, Men

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by A. L. Long, 1886.

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• The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

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  War, Enemy, Whips

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• It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

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  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  Attributed; after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862

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• My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

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  Christian, Humble, Civil War

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• I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

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  War, Doors, Shadow

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• The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

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  Military, Mistake, Cynical

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• As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

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  Character, Men, Principles

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• We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

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  War, Mistake, Struggle

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• My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

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  Civil War, Kind, Mercy

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• We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

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  War, Adversity, Prosperity

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• If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.

  Robert E. Lee

  Friday, Sleep, Light

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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.

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  War, Broken, Exhausted

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

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  Country, War, Generations

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.432, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• 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 will more willingly follow.

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  War, Doors, Gathering

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• We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

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  Gentleman, Students

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• I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

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  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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• We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

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  Failure, Blessing, Civil War

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• Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

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  Sweet, Mountain, Wander

  "Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee".

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• Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

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  Men, Two, Quality

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