American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)

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Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.
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.
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

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