I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans. - Robert E. Lee
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
- Robert E. Lee
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. - Robert E. Lee
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. - Robert E. Lee
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how ca… - Robert E. Lee
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how ca…
Without music, we wouldn't have an Army. - Robert E. Lee
Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
A land without memories is a people without liberty. - Robert E. Lee
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the So… - Robert E. Lee
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the So…
I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything… - Robert E. Lee
I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything…
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which … - Robert E. Lee
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which …
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