"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did……" — Jefferson Davis
"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
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