Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.
- Robert E. Lee
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Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it... Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance... We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all... A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
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Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary.... Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up... All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be... The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home,... With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen,... So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve...
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