Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
Speech https://web.archive.org/web/20070621205516/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/24.1/belz.html (1861) <br class="br">1860s
“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.”
"The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-7
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)
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Broadcast from the Cabinet Rooms at 10 Downing Street (3 September 1939)
Prime Minister
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Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
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