Jody Victor : For Robert E. Lee's birthday, January 19, here are some favorite quotes from him.
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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.