“I entered the Confederate service for the purpose of defending the rights of the States.”— Joseph E. Brown
“It is a time that we should look upon this matter of slavery in a new light.”— Judah Philip Benjamin
“We are fighting for our liberty, for our own government, and for the right to manage our own affairs.”— Judah Philip Benjamin
“The South has been slandered, vilified, misrepresented, and held up as a people deficient in all the high qualities which elevate and ennoble a nation.”— Judah Philip Benjamin
“A more gallant, chivalrous body of men than the private soldiers and subordinate officers of the Confederate army was never marshaled.”— John Brown Gordon
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.”— Alexander H. Stephens
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”— Jefferson Davis
“This Southern Confederacy must be supported now by calm determination and courage.”— Mary Boykin Chesnut
“We have taught the world that northern chivalry is a myth and southern chivalry a reality.”— Daniel Harvey Hill