Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers — Abel P. Upshur Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.” — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. — LeRoy Pope Walker Copy Share Image
“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against… — Jia Qinglin Copy Share Image
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. — Belle Boyd 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
I have white friends who have the Confederate flag on their license plates, and I have no issue with that if they… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“Mike Lofgren, a Republican who spent thirty years observing how wealthy interests gamed the policy-making apparatus in Washington, where he was a… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" This cyclonic issue of secession was to be settled a third of a… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession… — Judah P. Benjamin Copy Share Image
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — 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 can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I HAVE said somewhere that the three Presidentiads preceding 1861 show’d how the weakness and wickedness of rulers are just as eligible… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession. — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
