Robert E. Lee Military Quotations

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

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 them.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.