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• Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

  Jefferson Davis

  Humble, Haughty

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• It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Memories, Hero

  Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

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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 full of golden promise.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Lying, Past

  John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.19, Mercer University Press

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• I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Night, Years

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• Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.

  Jefferson Davis

  Agency, Government, Office

  Jefferson Davis, Dr WIlliam Peters (2014). “A Short HIstory of the Confederate States of America”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Feelings, Bitter

  Jefferson Davis (2004). “Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings”, p.437, Modern Library

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• I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.

  Jefferson Davis

  Party, Men, Together

  Jefferson Davis, Heros von Borcke, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke (2017). “REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More”, p.2145, Madison & Adams

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

  Jefferson Davis

  Southern, United States, Constitution

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• It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

  Jefferson Davis

  Children, Virtue, Duty

  Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Enemy, Events

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• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Rights

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Unions, Should, Being True

  Jefferson Davis (1859). “Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: delivered during the summer of 1858”, p.3

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• Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

  Jefferson Davis

  Long, People, Justice

  Jefferson Davis (2004). “Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings”, p.202, Modern Library

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• At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

  Jefferson Davis

  Tombstone, Soldier, Constitution

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• We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

  Jefferson Davis

  Sacrifice, Honor, Liberty

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.381, Library of Alexandria

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• A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Forever, Unions

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• For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Views, Political

  Jefferson Davis (1912). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”

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• To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its
  people.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, People, Honor

  Jefferson Davis (1859). “Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: delivered during the summer of 1858”, p.12

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• The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

  Jefferson Davis

  Son, Troops, Gains

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• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Unions

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• Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

  Jefferson Davis

  Two, Together, Nails

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• If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Pride, Men

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.757, Library of Alexandria

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• Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

  Jefferson Davis

  Flower, Heart, Thorns

  Jefferson Davis, Hudson Strode (1966). “Private Letters, 1823-1889”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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