“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".”

“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”

“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”

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