The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
I will attack no matter what and win the war!
No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.
Every student must be a gentleman.
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state.
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
I was too weak to defend, so I attacked.
My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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.
All this has been my fault.
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
We must forgive our enemies.
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.