Robert E. Lee Quotes

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

Fold it up and put it away.

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.

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.

We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

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.

Honesty in its widest sense is always admirable. The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done — the honor of the integrity of principle.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.