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States Quotes by Jefferson Davis
- 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…
- African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
- 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…
- 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…
- The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
- Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If…
- It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United…
- It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
- Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you the…
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur