~ Robert E. Lee Quotes ~

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Robert E. Lee Quotes


A career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. 
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. The son of U.S. Revolutionary War hero, Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee III, and a top graduate of West Point, Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and combat engineer in the United States Army for 32 years before resigning to join the Confederate cause. By the end of the American Civil War, he was commanding general of the Confederate army. He became a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause," and is still admired to this day.

Here are some famous quotes by  Robert E. Lee.

Let the tent be struck.

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The devil's name is dullness.

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Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

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It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

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We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.