Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

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

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

Jefferson Davis

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

Jefferson Davis

Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care.

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.

Jefferson Davis

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

Jefferson Davis

All we ask is to be let alone.

Jefferson Davis