69 Quotes by Jefferson Davis

A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

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.

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.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.