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Men Quotes by Robert E. Lee
- There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you,…
- Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
- A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
- I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see…
- The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
- You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
- There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
- Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold…
- We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy…
- General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
- What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge…
- Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place.…
- I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former…
- I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.
- I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- 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…
- The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
- A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
- 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…
- 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…
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