Less Objectionable Quotes by Jefferson Davis

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Jefferson Davis has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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.
• Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
• A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the…
• 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…
• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts…

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