Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
