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good people, people of vision, those who will not sell their souls for a mess of potage, nor sacrifice their birthrights on the altar of expediency in the marketplace.
Pompey, Roman general and statesman, put it: “It is a small matter that I should move forward and die. It is too great a matter that I should take one step backward and live.”
Following the bloody years of the Civil War, the name and character of Gen. Robert E. Lee never faltered nor waivered. This great general stood taller in defeat than most generals ever stood in victory.
One day a group of men approached him about heading a business enterprise of questionable nature. They offered him $50,000. “You will have to do nothing. All we want is the use of your name,” they told him.
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