Quotes by Jefferson Davis

• 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.