Nathan Bedford Forrest famous quotes

03-19-2025

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Ku Klux Klan #League
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Mean #Fighting
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Men #Order
No damn man kills me and lives.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Men #Bad Ass #Umpires
I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Army #Dollars #Half
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

#War #Storm #May
I done told you twice already goddammit no!
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Civil War #Done
Get there first with the most.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Military #Firsts
I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Law #Government
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Country #Color #Together
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Civil War #Purpose
Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest
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

#Brother #Air #Land
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

#War #Men #Long
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Men #Color #No Respect
I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#War #Fighting #Coffins
Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest

#Badass #Kill Me

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