"Pray excuse me. I cannot take it." — Jefferson Davis
"Pray excuse me. I cannot take it."
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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 Cannot Take Quotes
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
— Sholom Aleichem
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
— James Cameron
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods…
— Red Cloud
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
— Andy Andrews
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[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.
— Christopher Fowler
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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to…
— Rajneesh
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
— Adam Sedgwick
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Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make…
— Rajneesh
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Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we…
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