Jefferson Davis

Leader

1808-06-03

Books by Jefferson Davis

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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.
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The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.
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The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
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All we ask is to be let alone.
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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.
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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.
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.
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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.
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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