"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written……" — Jefferson Davis
"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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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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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number…
— James Madison
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you…
— Unknown Author
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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination…
— Thomas Hobbes
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There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your…
— Calvin Johnson
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Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the…
— Peter Thiel
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I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black…
— Zach Braff
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Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
— Jalal Talabani
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If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into…
— Andrew Johnson
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The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a…
— Donald Harington
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