Best Quotes by Robert E, Lee
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
–Robert E. Lee
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend–or to keep one.”
–Robert E. Lee
“Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”
–Robert E. Lee
“I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.”
–Robert E. Lee
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
–Robert E. Lee
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”
–Robert E. Lee
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
–Robert E. Lee
“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”
–Robert E. Lee
“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.”
–Robert E. Lee
“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. ”
–Robert E. Lee
“Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.”
–Robert E. Lee
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
–Robert E. Lee
“A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.”
–Robert E. Lee