"I would rather see you unlettered and unnoticed, if virtuous in practice as well as in theory, than see you the equal in glory to the great Washington."
— Henry Lee III

January 1, 1970

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Military leaders from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPoliticians from VirginiaGovernors of VirginiaFederalist Party (United States) politicians
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Letter to his son, Charles Carter Lee, as quoted in R.E.Lee: A Biography (1934) by Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. I, p.32.