Bedford Forrest Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself.

Pawan Mishra

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#6. 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

#7. I'm in orbit around you, can't you see that? I can move around you, but never away

Kahlen Aymes

#8. I ended the war a horse ahead.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#9. No one ever does the last thing on their list.

Ariel Gore

#10. Vampires aren't noble?"
"No. We serve or we prey."
"Like monks?"
He frowned, confused, and then gave a soft chuckle. "Prey, as in hunt. No God would hear our prayers.

Erin Kellison

#11. No damn man kills me and lives.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#12. 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

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#16. One step, two ... three ... Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success.
"What was that?" he asked.
"Walking."
"Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older."
She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.

Gena Showalter

#17. 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

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#19. Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Thomas Browne

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#23. I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

Groucho Marx

#24. The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

Hilma Wolitzer

#25. Attack in all directions!

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#27. People are human, not some machine we can control.

Ika Natassa

#28. That cheery, flimsy distraction from Death; or in a pinch Law & Order, because on some station or other, at any time of day or night, you can find it
Detective Benson! Detective Stabler! My long lost!
and no longer be alone.

Claire Messud

#29. Get there first with the most.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Nathan Bedford Forrest

#32. 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