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All we ask is to be let alone.
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.
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
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.... (more Jefferson Davis quotes)
| Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper | |
| Was Jefferson Davis Right? by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy | |
| Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back by Robert Penn Warren |