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

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

Jefferson Davis

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.

Jefferson Davis

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Jefferson Davis

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis