All we ask is to be let alone. – 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
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. – 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
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim