Jefferson Davis Famous Quotes
All we ask is to be let alone.
"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."
"The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves."
Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis Quotations
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
"Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
William James
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
Charles Dickens
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
Ambrose Bierce
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
Alexander Penney
"After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile."
Arab Proverb
"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it."
William A Orton
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A A Milne