Robert E. Lee Quotes

Biography
Type: Soldier
Nationality: American
Born: January 19, 1807
Died: October 12, 1870


A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E. Lee

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

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.
Robert E. Lee

Duty, then 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

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.
Robert E. Lee

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee

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.
Robert E. Lee

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Robert E. Lee

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee

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.
Robert E. Lee

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. Lee

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

Let the tent be struck.
Robert E. Lee

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
Robert E. Lee

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Robert E. Lee

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

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.
Robert E. Lee