Michael Biggers

Favourite Quotations:

"Texans always move them!" -- General Robert E. Lee

Abraham Lincoln once asked General (Winfield) Scott the
question:
"Why is it that you were once able to take the City of Mexico in three months with 5,000 men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with 100,000 men?"
"I will tell you," said General Scott. "The men who took us into the City of Mexico are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, September 1913, page 471)

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." - General Robert E Lee

"The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans." - General Robert E. Lee

"Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand." - Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to always be ready, no matter when it may overtake me." - Thomas Johnathan "Stonewall" Jackson

'Southern culture is saying "Yes, sir" and "Yes, ma'am;" it's opening the door for and tipping your hat to a lady; it requires standing your ground even when you know the odds are against you; it's saying "Hello" to people when you pass them on the street; it is self-sufficiency and being thankful for what you have instead of being bitter about what you don't have; it is saving for what you want and paying in cash; it is living within your means instead of trying to keep up with the Joneses; in short, it is courtesy, modesty, thrift, chivalry, as well as a hundred other currently outmoded concepts.'
-Paul B. Martin, First Lieutenant Commander, Robert E. Lee Camp 239, Ft. Worth, Texas, Sons of Confederate Veterans