Robert Lee Quotes

#1. Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Robert E.Lee

#2. We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.

Robert E.Lee

#3. Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

Robert E.Lee

#4. With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army ...

Robert E.Lee

#5. What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

Robert E.Lee

#6. Is there anyone more insufferable than a self-made man?" I heard Dr. Kimbrough ask. I

Robert Lee Hamady

#7. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.

Carl Weathers

#8. You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

Robert E.Lee

#9. Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

Donna Reed

#10. There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Robert E.Lee

#11. You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies.

Victor Robert Lee

#12. He has freedom on his face.

Victor Robert Lee

#13. History is running very fast in my country.

Victor Robert Lee

#14. I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

Robert E.Lee

#15. It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Robert E.Lee

#16. I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

Robert E.Lee

#17. My father's people ... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Robert Duvall

#18. It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it

Robert E. Lee

Greg Seeley

#19. After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Victor Robert Lee

#20. Try as you may, you can never defy love.

Emery Lee

#21. What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Victor Robert Lee

#22. I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

Robert E.Lee

#23. I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

Robert E.Lee

#24. What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts ...

Robert E.Lee

#25. I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Robert E.Lee

#26. You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

Bruce Springsteen

#27. The devil's name is dullness.

Robert E.Lee

#28. 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.

Robert E.Lee

#29. No party should fear to go before the people for their decision.

Robert Lee Yates

#30. 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.

Robert E.Lee

#31. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend
or to keep one.

Robert E.Lee

#32. 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

Robert E.Lee

#33. General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

Robert E.Lee

#34. I will attack no matter what and win the war!

Robert E.Lee

#35. and I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my

Robert Louis Stevenson

#36. Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.

Michael Shaara

#37. The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don't know who to fear. Isn't that why god was invented?

Victor Robert Lee

#38. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.

Clint Johnson

#39. We must ... submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Robert E.Lee

#40. A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Robert E.Lee

#41. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Robert E.Lee

#42. Semtex, PE4, C-4, Plastrite, Netrolit, Spring Korper, Rowanex
Cono felt slightly shameful about his familiarity with plastics, and yet seeing them here, even so amateurishly arranged, gave him a perverse comfort.

Victor Robert Lee

#43. 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

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

Robert E.Lee

#45. No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.

Victor Robert Lee

#46. 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 I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Robert E.Lee

#47. If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than English.

Robert Earl Lee

#48. Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.

Victor Robert Lee

#49. Even now, I feel your arms around me
My breath is your breath and yours mine
Even now, I hear you laughing like bells ...
You sing to me and I sing to you
Dear child of my womb, my love,
Time has left us, left us forever together.

Victor Robert Lee

#50. A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Robert E.Lee

#51. I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

Robert E.Lee

#52. Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

Robert E.Lee

#53. We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

Robert E.Lee

#54. He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

Robert E.Lee

#55. In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.

Victor Robert Lee

#56. There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.

Robert E.Lee

#57. Tamaris to her fellow jihadi: "Don't pray-- shoot!

Victor Robert Lee

#58. Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.

Victor Robert Lee

#59. The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Robert E.Lee

#60. You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

Robert E.Lee

#61. I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself
wouldn't you?

Victor Robert Lee

#62. Marry ... into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Robert E.Lee

#63. I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You.

Eva Gabor

#64. As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Robert E.Lee

#65. I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

Robert E.Lee

#66. My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Robert E.Lee

#67. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Robert E.Lee

#68. My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

Robert E.Lee

#69. A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.

Victor Robert Lee

#70. It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

Robert N. Lee

#71. Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

Robert E.Lee

#72. have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground." So he waited to see what would happen - which was usually a fatal thing to do in the vicinity of Robert E. Lee.

Allen C. Guelzo

#73. It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Robert E.Lee

#74. 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

#75. In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

Fannie Flagg

#76. It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

Robert E.Lee

#77. Imagine the joy of that - of not being beneath that big thumb. Imagine no longer being a beetle, but being a man.

Victor Robert Lee

#78. We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

Robert E.Lee

#79. 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

#80. Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

Robert E.Lee

#81. You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Robert E.Lee

#82. It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Robert E.Lee

#83. What a cruel thing war is ... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert E.Lee

#84. There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done
the honor of the integrity of principle.

Robert E.Lee

#85. We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Robert E.Lee

#86. True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

Robert E.Lee

#87. If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

Robert N. Lee

#88. To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

Victor Robert Lee

#89. Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.

Victor Robert Lee

#90. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Robert E.Lee

#91. Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

Robert E.Lee

#92. I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

Robert E.Lee

#93. He (recently-appointed and new-to-command Robert E Lee) will be timid in the irresolute in action.

George B. McClellan

#94. A kite only flies if it's tethered.

Victor Robert Lee

#95. You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert E.Lee

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

Robert E.Lee

#97. We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Robert E.Lee

#98. There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

Robert E.Lee

#99. The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

Robert Lee Morris

#100. It's only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?

Victor Robert Lee