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Quotes from Speech — Jefferson Davis

1808–1889 United States

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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?

Speech (1861)

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