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There is a relation belonging to this species of property, unlike that of the apprentice or the hired man, which awakens whatever there is of kindness or of nobility of soul in the heart of him who owns it; this can only be alienated, obscured, or destroyed, by collecting this species of property into such masses that the owner is not personally acquainted with the individuals who compose it.

— Jefferson Davis

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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

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.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

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)

...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

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