"Never be haughty to the humble or humble…" — Jefferson Davis

"Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty."

— Jefferson Davis

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53 Quotes by Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by…
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future…
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who…
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on…
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God…
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains…
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by…
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are…
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a…
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or…

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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making… — Elizabeth Bowen
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack… — Sun Tzu
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. — Euripides
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn… — John Stott
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme… — Jean de la Bruyere
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round… — Khalil Gibran
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence… — Joseph Epstein
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn… — John Stott
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged… — Peter Greenaway
The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of… — Milton R. Hunter

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