Robert E. Lee Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Ungrateful, Mars, World

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

  Robert E. Lee

  Perseverance, Firsts, Accomplish

• The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Broken, Exhausted

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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