no problem. I'm actually looking forward to getting two different political histories of the French Revolution and the Rise Of Western Democracy.
A Confederate Primer I just read this absolute beauty. Things like this should be a must read in NA schools.
"So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained."-Robert E. Lee
"This war is not about slavery"-Robert E. Lee
"Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?"-Robert E. Lee
"A land without memories is a people without liberty."-Robert E. Lee
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth."-Robert E. Lee
"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today."-Robert E. Lee
"In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages."-Robert E. Lee
"A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none."-Robert E. Lee
"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides." Robert E. Lee
"While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day."-Robert E. Lee
"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."-Robert E. Lee
"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."Robert E. Lee
"I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them."-Robert E. Lee
