Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes

#1. If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#2. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#3. I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#4. War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#5. Get there first with the most.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#6. Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#7. Attack in all directions!

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#8. Never stand and take a charge ... charge them too.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#9. Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#10. What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#11. I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#12. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#13. I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#14. Forward, men, and mix with them.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#15. I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#16. I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#17. No damn man kills me and lives.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#18. I ended the war a horse ahead.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#19. We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#20. If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#21. I done told you twice already goddammit no!

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#22. Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory.

Nathan Bedford Forrest