Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes About Civil War

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

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Ku Klux Klan, League

• 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

• 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 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

  "Farewell address". May 9, 1865.

• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Military, War, Mean

  "May I Quote You, General Forrest?". Book by Randall Bedwell, 1996.

• 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

• 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

  Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411

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

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Civil War, Purpose

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

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Fighting, Coffins

• I done told you twice already goddammit no!

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Civil War, Done

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