Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Daviswas an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country, and at home, the collapsing Confederate economy forced his government...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 June 1808
CityFairview, KY
Jefferson Davis quotes about
Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
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.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.