Robert E. Lee Quote

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.


After one of the faculty at Washington College in Virginia (now Washington & Lee University) had spoken insultingly of Ulysses S. Grant, as quoted in Lee the American (1912) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 226


Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this...

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this...

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this...

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this...