"Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the……" — Jefferson Davis
"Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together."
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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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Well begun is half done.
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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