Robert E. Lee

“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.”

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

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

“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”

“The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!”

“We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.”