Quotes from Alexander H. Stephens

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.