Author: Jefferson Davis

Quotes

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

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

- Jefferson Davis

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

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

- Jefferson Davis

All we ask is to be let alone.

All we ask is to be let alone.

- Jefferson Davis

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.

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.

- Jefferson Davis

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