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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. – Jefferson Davis

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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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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. – George S. Patton

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[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. – James A. Garfield

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