Quotes by : Robert E. Lee

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom....

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle,....

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution....

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

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

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

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.