Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty. — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“the “secession” of the rich in which they “disconnect themselves from the civic life of the nation and from any concern about… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Cung said, “I have researched Vietnamese People fleeing to the land of the Uc da Loi! On the 26th of April 1976,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters,"… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“The Confederate States of America in 1861 was legally an independent government. The Southern states seceded by popular conventions of the people… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession.… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who,… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I generally support just about every secession attempt that comes along. If, in the future, there is that kind of a dispute… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“We may be rats in a maze as far as the Obama administration is concerned, but in Texas, we are rats with… — Tom King Copy Share Image
