Nathan Forrest Quotes & Sayings

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

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

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

I can be anything you want but definitely not a wannabe. — Pushpa Rana

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours. — Margaret Thatcher

No damn man kills me and lives. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. — Tim DeChristopher

Attack in all directions! — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the world, if administered as it was before the war. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it. I believe that party to be composed, as I know it is in Tennessee, of the worst men on Gods earth - men who would not hesitate at no crime, and who have only one object in view - to enrich themselves. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

I done told you twice already goddammit no! — Nathan Bedford Forrest

You and I can face the harsh realities of life in this broken world with courage and hope because we do not face them all by ourselves. Immanuel ("God with us") is indeed with us in power, glory, and grace. — Paul David Tripp

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

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

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

War means fighting, and fighting means killing. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I don't foresee a future where people don't have some sort of phone that's like a computer. I don't foresee a future where those phones don't have cameras in them. That spells a future where smartphones are the status quo. You have to ask yourself how you allow people to communicate what's in their lives. — Kevin Systrom

Get there first with the most. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Forward, men, and mix with them. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

I ended the war a horse ahead. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge ... charge them too. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men. — Bruce Catton