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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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• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, War, Loss

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• Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Praying, Excuse

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

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, History

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• The authors of all our misfortune.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, History, Misfortunes

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Rights, Natural, Idle

  Jefferson Davis (1860). “Relations of states: Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi”, p.4

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