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.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.