Robert E. (Edward) Lee, General and Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army in the US Civil War was born on this date in 1807. 10 things he said.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
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.
It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?'
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.
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 neighbours, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
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