Jefferson Davis quotes

" All we ask is to be let 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. " # Government # War # Madness

" 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. " # Rivalry # Politicians and Politics # Critics and Criticism

" Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty. " # Humility # Arrogance # Pride

" Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again. " # Truth

" Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. " # Quotations

" Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty " # Quotations