Author: Robert E. Lee

Cited by

• B. Kent Anderson (1)
  • IN: Cold Glory (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.
    FROM: NULL, (1861), Speech, US
• Kirsten Beyer (2)
  • IN: Star Trek Voyager: Protectors (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble, the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is History that teaches us to hope.
    FROM: Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, (1870), Letter, US
  • IN: Protectors (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
    FROM: Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, (1870), Letter, US
• Harry and Greenberg, Martin H. Turtledove (1)
  • IN: The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
    FROM: Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862), (1862), Conversation, US