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

- Robert E. Lee

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

- Robert E. Lee

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

- Robert E. Lee

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how ca…

- Robert E. Lee

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

- Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

- Robert E. Lee

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the So…

- Robert E. Lee

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything…

- Robert E. Lee

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which …

- Robert E. Lee