"The contest is not over, the strife is……" — Jefferson Davis

"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena."

— 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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More Arena Quotes

This quote is filed under Arena Quotes, one of 340 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance… — John Berger
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. — Aneurin Bevan
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose… — Jo Brand
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the… — Kobe Bryant
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the… — George W. Bush
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for… — Hillary Clinton
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end… — George Clooney
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as… — Ian Anderson
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing. — Julie Andrews
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't… — Francesca Annis
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they… — Srully Blotnick

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