Robert E. Lee Quotes
A career United States Army officer and combat engineer. He became the commanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause."
(1807 - 1870)
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A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
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Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
[Forgiveness]
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Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
[Enable]
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
[Able]
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
[War]
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
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This war is not about slavery.
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