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Jefferson Davis (Politician)

All we ask is to be let alone.
— Jefferson Davis alone
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
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 joy
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
— Jefferson Davis die
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
— Jefferson Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
— Jefferson Davis history
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
— Jefferson Davis true
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
— Jefferson Davis people
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
— Jefferson Davis evil
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
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 love
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
— Jefferson Davis man
A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
— Jefferson Davis people

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