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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More Quotes By Jefferson Davis
  1. The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

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

  3. Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

  4. 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.

  5. To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

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