Jefferson Davis Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Jefferson Davis:

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

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

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

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

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

Jefferson Davis

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

Jefferson Davis

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.

Jefferson Davis

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

Jefferson Davis

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

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