Robert E. Lee Quotations

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by every member.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.