Robert E. Lee

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live ...

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

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

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

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and ...

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you ...

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just w ...

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washingt ...

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the p ...

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Ch ...