Jefferson Davis Quotes - Famous Quotes by Jefferson Davis
Born: 1808-06-03
Died: 1889-12-06
Jefferson Davis Biography
All we ask is to be let alone.
- Jefferson Davis
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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
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Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis
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Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis
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Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis
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The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.
- Jefferson Davis
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Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
- Jefferson Davis
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