Robert E. Lee Quotes

"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love."
-Robert E. Lee

"Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character."
-Robert E. Lee in Authority quotes.

"I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them."
-Robert E. Lee

"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."
-Robert E. Lee

"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
-Robert E. Lee

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee

"Strike the tent."
-Robert E. Lee

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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
-Robert E. Lee

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it."
-Robert E. Lee in War quotes.

"You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey."
-Robert E. Lee

"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
-Robert E. Lee