The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
Jefferson DavisThe troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
Jefferson DavisThe principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
Jefferson DavisMy 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