Jefferson Davis Quotes

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• At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
• Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they…
• The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
• The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder…
• African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
• If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.…
• 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 God's…
• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal…
• Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
• Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time…
• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace…
• Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever…
• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
• Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly…
• Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
• The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
• The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
• Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
• Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

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