We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
- Robert E. Lee
More Quotes By Robert E. Lee
Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us... Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had... My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our... The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded... The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were... 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... Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the... There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution... A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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,...
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