Down Quote by Andrew Jackson

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal…

— Thomas Woods

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

— Matthew Whitaker

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

— Thomas DiLorenzo

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union,…

— Andrew Jackson

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

— Anonymous

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

— Randolph Bourne