Robert E. Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”

“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 honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”

“A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

“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.”

“I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.”

“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”

“The devil's name is dullness.”

“My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.”