Absolutism Quote by Lord Acton

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a…

— Jefferson Davis

As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will…

— Jubal Early

...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding…

— Andrew Jackson

Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all…

— Robert E. Lee

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which…

— Thomas Jefferson

Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about…

— Robert Kennedy

“And do not imagine that what we are fighting for is simply the question of freedom or slavery: there is also involved the loss…

— Thucydides

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve…

— Andrew Jackson

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Forrest spat, “Bah. We don’t need it. This world doesn’t need another nation of steel and soot. We showed that magic defeats metal. Grant…

— Robert Edward

“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union as it…

— Régis de Trobriand