"God forbid that the day should ever come……" — Jefferson Davis
"God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union."
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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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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most…
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The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are…
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The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is…
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone…
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[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied…
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