"A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government……" — Jefferson Davis
"A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence."
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Jefferson Davis
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53 Quotes by Jefferson Davis
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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by…
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The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future…
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The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who…
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African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
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If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on…
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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God…
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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains…
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by…
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Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are…
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Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a…
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Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or…
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More Defence Quotes
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
— Michael Badnarik
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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in…
— Gerry Adams
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
— Russell Brand
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more…
— David Cameron
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Sadness is also a kind of defence.
— Ivo Andric
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves…
— Maya Angelou
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause…
— John Foxe
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I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
— Tamim Iqbal
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