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

  Robert E. Lee

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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

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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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• 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.

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  Feet, Be Careful, Walks

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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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• I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

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  Weak

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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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• With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.

  Robert E. Lee

  Loyalty, Children, War

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.21, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

  Robert E. Lee

  Regret, Views, Light

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.221, 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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  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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• 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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• My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

  Robert E. Lee

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.

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• Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

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  Struggle, Battle, Principles

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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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• The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

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  Real, Men, Honest

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by Armistead Lindsay Long, 1886.

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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.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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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.

  Robert E. Lee

  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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• I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

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  Country, War, Believe

  Robert E. Lee (1904). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

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  Heart, Giving, Needs

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• The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!

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  Enemy, Texan

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

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Two Sides

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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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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

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  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

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  Integrity, Honor, Principles

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