Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes

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• 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…
• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
• Get there first with the most.
• Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.
• We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.
• 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…
• I done told you twice already goddammit no!
• If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
• I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.
• 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?
• I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
• Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.
• I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.
• 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…
• Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.
• No damn man kills me and lives.
• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
• 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…
• I ended the war a horse ahead.

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