Best Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than…

— Jim Webb

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed…

— George Mason

I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need…

— Nikki Haley

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and…

— Allen West

I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and…

— Jeff Sessions

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think…

— Andy Stern

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of…

— Charles Dickens

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as…

— Robert E. Lee

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits…

— Russell Freedman

My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North,…

— Angelina Grimke