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

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

Jefferson Davis

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

Jefferson Davis

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

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

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

Jefferson Davis

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Jefferson Davis