The devil's name is dullness.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.
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.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Let the tent be struck.
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.
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 peopl...
It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.
The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief,...
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.