Brethren Quote by Isham G. Harris

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any…

— Andrew Johnson

I think it's possible for Tennessee to be flipped to a Democratic majority, which would be beneficial to enacting policies that I would like…

— Julien Baker

Tennessee taxpayer dollars should not be sent to subsidize unconstitutional election practices in other states.

— Bill Hagerty

I'm ready to fight for Mississippians in Washington.

— Mike Espy

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation…

— Strom Thurmond

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

— Dorothy Richardson

People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who tamely allow…

— Kenneth Roberts

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

— Stephen Ambrose

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

— Barack Obama

“Criticism of Davis was neither new nor unusual, for his Confederacy was by no means a monolithic state. Secession had been imposed upon many…

— Burke Davis

Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and…

— Robert Anderson