"Each man has his own reason to die. But if they go on, I will go on. It is only another defeat. If the war goes on — and it will, it will — what else can we do but go on? It is the same question forever, what else can we do? If they fight, we will fight with them. And does it matter after all who wins? Was that ever really the question? Will God ask that question, in the end?"
— Robert E. Lee in Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels, p. 339
(By the way, I can’t help but think how different the humility in this quote is from the pride and arrogance of modern American war.)
