Robert E. Lee Quotes

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• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
• A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
• It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
• We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there…
• My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
• I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
• 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…
• 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…
• My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
• It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
• There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
• Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances
• True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels…
• Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state
• My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
• 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…
• Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
• It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

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