It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — 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
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
“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.” — Ron Chernow 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
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 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
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
“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
...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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state:… — Murray Rothbard 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
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. — Ron Paul 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
“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.” — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
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
