Character Quote by Jefferson Davis

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in…

— Jefferson Davis

Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you…

— Jefferson Davis

Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the…

— Jefferson Davis

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he…

— Jefferson Davis

This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our…

— Jefferson Davis

I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together…

— Jefferson Davis

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

— Jefferson Davis

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity…

— Jefferson Davis

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

— Jefferson Davis

The authors of all our misfortune.

— Jefferson Davis

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

— Jefferson Davis

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political…

— Jefferson Davis