Nathan Bedford Forrest Quotes

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

History has been the history of warfare.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

We confused the warriors with the war.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Wars ruin armies.

Every soldier in our army feels that Israel must be wiped off the map.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.