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 DavisNothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
Jefferson DavisWe protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
Jefferson DavisThe troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
Jefferson DavisThe war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.
Jefferson Davis