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

~Robert E. Lee

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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and 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.

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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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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 tobacco, while my army is starving.

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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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If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; 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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Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

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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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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

~Robert E. Lee

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: January 19th, 1807

Died: October 12th, 1870

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