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
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
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
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
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
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
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what… — L. Neil Smith 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
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
“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
“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
