Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes

Attack in all directions!

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

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

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

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.

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.

No damn man kills me and lives.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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

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

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

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.

I ended the war a horse ahead.