Bonny Blue Flag
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2008
- Location
- Grand Prairie, Texas
This is a collection of quotes from R.E. Lee. Please fell free to add to this post with quotes you find from Lee or other generals.
The source material is: Observations and Utterances From the South's Great Generals. Edited by Randall Bedwell / 1997
"My loyalty to Virginia ought to take precedence over that which is due to the federal government. If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But, if she secedes, then I will still follow my native state with my sword, and need be with my life."
--Robert E. Lee to Charles Anderson, February 1861
"I must side either with or against my section or country. I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children. I should like, above all things, that our difficulties might be peaceably arranged...Whatever may be the result of the contest, I foresee that the country will have to pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation perhaps for our national sins."
--Robert E. Lee, excerpt from a letter to a Northern girl who had requested his photograph.
"Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!"
--Robert E. Lee, preparing to advance, the Wilderness, 1864
"It is well that war is so terrible, else men would love it too much."
--Robert E. Lee, Fredericksburg, 1862
"An invasion of the enemy's country breaks up all his preconcieved plans of invasion."
--Robert E. Lee
"If we can defeat or drive the enemy from the field, we shall have peace. All our efforts and energies should be devoted to that object."
--Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, July6th, 1864
"It is important that conflict not be provoked until we are ready."
--Robert E. Lee, 1861
"There has always been a hazard in military movements, but we must decide between the positions of inaction and the risk of action."
--Robert E. Lee
"Apparent failure often proves to be a blessing."
--Robert E. Lee
"It is easier to defend a railroad by massing troops at salient and commanding points to repress the attack of the enemy and strike him if he advances, than to extend the force the whole line."
--Robert E. Lee
"It is sometimes better to wait until you are attacked."
--Robert E. Lee
"There is only one attitude in which I should never be ashamed of you seeing my men, and that is when they are fighting."
--Robert E. Lee, discounting the ragtag appearance of his troops to a British correspondent.
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More quotes to follow. Please submit quotes from other great Generals.
--BBF
The source material is: Observations and Utterances From the South's Great Generals. Edited by Randall Bedwell / 1997
"My loyalty to Virginia ought to take precedence over that which is due to the federal government. If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But, if she secedes, then I will still follow my native state with my sword, and need be with my life."
--Robert E. Lee to Charles Anderson, February 1861
"I must side either with or against my section or country. I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children. I should like, above all things, that our difficulties might be peaceably arranged...Whatever may be the result of the contest, I foresee that the country will have to pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation perhaps for our national sins."
--Robert E. Lee, excerpt from a letter to a Northern girl who had requested his photograph.
"Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!"
--Robert E. Lee, preparing to advance, the Wilderness, 1864
"It is well that war is so terrible, else men would love it too much."
--Robert E. Lee, Fredericksburg, 1862
"An invasion of the enemy's country breaks up all his preconcieved plans of invasion."
--Robert E. Lee
"If we can defeat or drive the enemy from the field, we shall have peace. All our efforts and energies should be devoted to that object."
--Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, July6th, 1864
"It is important that conflict not be provoked until we are ready."
--Robert E. Lee, 1861
"There has always been a hazard in military movements, but we must decide between the positions of inaction and the risk of action."
--Robert E. Lee
"Apparent failure often proves to be a blessing."
--Robert E. Lee
"It is easier to defend a railroad by massing troops at salient and commanding points to repress the attack of the enemy and strike him if he advances, than to extend the force the whole line."
--Robert E. Lee
"It is sometimes better to wait until you are attacked."
--Robert E. Lee
"There is only one attitude in which I should never be ashamed of you seeing my men, and that is when they are fighting."
--Robert E. Lee, discounting the ragtag appearance of his troops to a British correspondent.
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More quotes to follow. Please submit quotes from other great Generals.
--BBF