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Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis
Age: 81 †
Born: 1808
Born: June 3
Died: 1889
Died: December 6
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Former President Of The Confederate States Of America
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It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country they belong to America.
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Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
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A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.
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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.
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A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
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Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
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A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
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Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
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For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.
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Be not haughty with the humble be not humble with the haughty.
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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.
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How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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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 slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man its origin was Divine decree.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices.
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
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Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
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Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.
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The authors of all our misfortune.
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