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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Erwin Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as president of the college that would come to bear his name. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy to this day. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Lee, Robert E..

"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less."

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"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

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"Let the tent be struck."

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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

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"My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health."

Lee, Robert E. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."

Lee, Robert E. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."

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"The devil's name is dullness."

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"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain."

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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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"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. "

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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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"Still 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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"True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same. "

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

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"It is fortunate that war is so terrible, lest we become to fond of it."

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