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.
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
Without music, we wouldn't have an Army. - Robert E. Lee
Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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.
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…
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…
A land without memories is a people without liberty. - Robert E. Lee
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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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