More From Robert E. Lee
- "The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
- "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."
- "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."
More In Good
- "It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."― Stephen King
- "In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."― Mark Twain