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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Jefferson Davis |
| Quote #1: | "All we ask is to be let alone." |
| Quote #2: | "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." |
| Quote #3: | "The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves." |
| Quote #4: | "Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty." |
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