"The principles for which Jefferson Davis and the South went to war cannot suffer defeat."
— Jefferson Davis

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Oscar Wilde, as quoted in "When Jefferson Met Oscar, Ctd" (January 25, 2011), The Atlantic