Aim Quote by Jefferson Davis

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy…

— Andrew Jackson

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have…

— James Madison

“We have a historical chance. Imagine the power which Egypt, Iran, and Turkey have, are working in one organization. We have the world's energy…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South andthe other sections of the country. My chief purpose is…

— William Howard Taft

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a…

— John Brough

“The struggle of the Union and Confederate economies to supply and support their armies thus became a reflection of the prewar antagonism between liberal…

— Allen C. Guelzo

With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift…

— Richard M. Nixon

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to…

— Mitch Landrieu

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

— Paul Craig Roberts