Robert E. Lee Country Quotations

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.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.