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Men 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…
- Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
- 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…
- If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we…
- Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
- I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to…
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