I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. — 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
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
