Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

Duty is the sublimest word in our language.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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 less.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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 Quote

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

Let the tent be struck.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

This war is not about slavery.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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 is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

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.
- Robert E. Lee Quote

What a cruel thing is war... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
- Robert E. Lee Quote