“Robert E. Lee was married to George Washington’s granddaughter. He worked with Ulysses S. Grant during the Mexican-American war, and became a decorated war hero defending this country. He believed slavery was a great evil, and his wife broke the law by teaching slaves to read and write.
After the civil war he worked with Andrew Johnson’s program of reconstruction. He became very popular with the northern states and the Barracks at West Point were named in his honor in 1962. He was a great man who served this country his entire life in some form or other.
His memorial is now being called a ‘blight’. As they tear down this ‘blight’, keep these historical facts in your mind. No American military veteran and highly decorated war hero should ever be treated as such. This is not Iraq and that is not a statue of Sadam.
Lee was also very torn about the prospect of the South leaving the Union. George Washington was a huge influence on him. He believed that ultimately a states’ rights trumped the federal government, and chose to lead the Southern army.
His Arlington estate, near Washington D.C., was his home and while away fighting the war, the federal government demanded that Lee himself pay his taxes in person. He sent his wife, but the money was not accepted from a woman. When he could not pay the taxes, the government began burying dead Union soldiers on his land. The government is still burying people there today. It is now called the Arlington National Cemetery.” - Jim Serritella
QuotaBillsPolitics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck
Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon
In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli
In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford
When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter. - Steven Wright
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini
I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson
If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. - Donald Trump
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle
Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov