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How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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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Fairview
Christian County
Kentucky
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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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I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.
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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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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 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 fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
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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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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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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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A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
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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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We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
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Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
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The authors of all our misfortune.
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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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Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
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Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished—a reunited country.
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Be not haughty with the humble be not humble with the haughty.
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A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
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