Highest Civilization Quotes by Jefferson Davis

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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 past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of…
• The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her…
• 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…
• My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God 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…
• Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous…
• Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
• Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them…

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