69 Quotes by Jefferson Davis

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

The past is dead; let it bury it's dead, its hopes and aspirations; before you lies the future. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished--a reunited country.

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.

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.

All we ask is to be let alone.

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

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.