"A question settled by violence, or in disregard……" — Jefferson Davis
"A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever."
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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 Disregard Quotes
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me…
— Clara Barton
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way,…
— Watchman Nee
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
— Cato the Elder
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When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that…
— Bob Pettit
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us,…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on…
— Felix Frankfurter
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for…
— Ludwig von Mises
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With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment…
— Antonin Scalia
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To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a…
— Unknown Author
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