Mrs Jefferson Davis Quotes

#1. To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

Jefferson Davis

#2. 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.

Jefferson Davis

#3. All we ask is to be let alone.

Jefferson Davis

#4. We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

#8. God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jefferson Davis

#9. The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Jefferson Davis

#10. It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

Jefferson Davis

#11. Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Jefferson Davis

#12. Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Jefferson Davis

#13. The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

Jefferson Davis

#14. 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.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

#16. The authors of all our misfortune.

Jefferson Davis

#17. If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen ...

Jefferson Davis

#18. Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

Jefferson Davis

#19. 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.

Jefferson Davis

#20. The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.

Jefferson Davis

#21. A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

#23. Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Jefferson Davis

#24. Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

Jefferson Davis

#25. Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.

Ronnie Musgrove

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

Jefferson Davis

#27. Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.

Jefferson Davis

#28. Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Jefferson Davis

#29. 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.

Jefferson Davis

#30. Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize.

Herbert Asbury

#31. Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

Jefferson Davis

#32. He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward. Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.

Shelby Foote