"A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever."

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Source : John Joseph Craven, Jefferson Davis, Edward K. Eckert (1987). “"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis”, p.29, Mercer University Press

Jefferson Davis

#Law Quotes #Forever Quotes #Violence Quotes

“it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.”
“I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.”
“By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.”
“Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.”
“The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.”
“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”
“Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.”
“Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.”

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