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War Quotes by Jefferson Davis
- The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
- The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder…
- Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace…
- Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command…
- A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
- Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
- Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
- Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army…
- 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…
- For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences,…
- 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…
- I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let…
- This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our battle,…
- This war all started because them dam yanks wouldnt let us govern ourselves. the south will rise again!
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