"Truth crushed to earth is truth still and……" — Jefferson Davis
"Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again."
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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 Crushed Quotes
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised.…
— Nick Clegg
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
— Wes Fesler
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
— Murray Rothbard
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
— Walt Whitman
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
— Watchman Nee
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