In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
