Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. -Jefferson Davis History
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 War
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. -Jefferson Davis Happiness