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General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

— John Brown Gordon

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

— Johnny Isakson

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

— Mikheil Saakashvili

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

— Joseph Howe

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

— Kirby Smart

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

— Benjamin F. Wade

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

— Edward Brooke

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

— Sonny Perdue

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a Georgia guy; we can run.

— Benjamin Watson

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

— Robert Duvall