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Man Quotes by Jefferson Davis
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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 are not fighting…
- Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great…
- Were it ever to be proposed again to enter into a Union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than…
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