Citas de Jefferson Davis

• I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Fighting, Night

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Blessing, Political, United States

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• Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

  Jefferson Davis

  Earth, Crushed, Stills

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  La guerra... debe continuar hasta que caiga el último hombre de esta generación... a menos que reconozcan nuestro derecho al autogobierno. No luchamos por la esclavitud. Luchamos por la independencia, y eso, o el exterminio, lo tendremos.

  Jefferson Davis

  Guerra, Caída, Lucha

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• My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude...You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables them to be.

  Jefferson Davis

  Strong, Book, Law

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• El principio por el que luchamos está destinado a reafirmarse, aunque sea en otro momento y de otra forma.

  Jefferson Davis

  Principles, May, Form

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  Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, People, Ends

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• Nada me llena de mayor tristeza que ver a un hombre del Sur disculpándose por la defensa que hicimos de nuestra herencia. Nuestra causa era tan justa, tan sagrada, que si hubiera sabido todo lo que ha sucedido, si hubiera sabido lo que se me iba a infligir, todo lo que mi país iba a sufrir, todo lo que nuestra posteridad iba a soportar, lo haría todo de nuevo.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Sadness, Men

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• La veracidad es la piedra angular del carácter, y si no está firmemente asentada en la juventud, siempre habrá un punto débil en los cimientos.

  Jefferson Davis

  Character, Foundation, Weak Spots

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Law, Forever, Civil War

  John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press

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• Que el caballero vaya al Apocalipsis para conocer el decreto de Dios - que vaya a la Biblia. . . . Dije que la esclavitud estaba sancionada en la Biblia, autorizada, regulada y reconocida desde el Génesis hasta el Apocalipsis. . . . La esclavitud existía entonces en las edades más tempranas, y entre el pueblo escogido de Dios; y en el Apocalipsis se nos dice que existirá hasta que llegue el fin de los tiempos. La encontramos en el Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento, en las profecías, los salmos y las epístolas de Pablo; la encontramos reconocida y sancionada en todas partes.

  Jefferson Davis

  People, Religion, Gentleman

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• 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

  War, Smell, Southern

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• All we ask is to be let alone.

  Jefferson Davis

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Revolution

  1861 Inaugural address, 18 Feb.

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• La secesión pertenece a una clase diferente de remedios. Debe justificarse sobre la base de que los Estados son soberanos. Hubo un tiempo en que nadie lo negaba. Espero que vuelva a llegar el momento en que una mejor comprensión de la teoría de nuestro Gobierno y de los derechos inalienables del pueblo de los Estados impida que alguien niegue que cada Estado es Soberano y, por lo tanto, pueda reclamar las concesiones que ha hecho a cualquier agente.

  Jefferson Davis

  Rights, Government, Class

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.260, Library of Alexandria

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• If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

  Jefferson Davis

  Hombres, Ley, Doe

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

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Sadness, Defense

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• The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.

  Jefferson Davis

  Discipline, Desire, Slavery

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• La tradición suele basarse en algo que los hombres sabían; la historia es a menudo la fabricación de un simple mentiroso.

  Jefferson Davis

  Liars, Men, History

  Jefferson Davis (1876). “Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875”

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Majority Rule, Political, Events

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

  Jefferson Davis

  Civil War, Arena, Strife

  "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government".

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• Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

  Jefferson Davis

  Hombres, Ley, Dar

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• Si la Confederación fracasa, debería estar escrito en su lápida: Murió de una teoría.

  Jefferson Davis

  Tombstone, Organization, Political

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• 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

  Evil, Slavery, Masters

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• Un gobierno, para proporcionar la protección necesaria y ejercer el cuidado apropiado para el bienestar de un pueblo, debe tener homogeneidad en sus constituyentes. Es esta necesidad la que ha dividido a la raza humana en naciones separadas, y finalmente ha derrotado los más grandes esfuerzos que los conquistadores han hecho para dar una extensión ilimitada a su dominio.

  Jefferson Davis

  Exercise, Race, Government

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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