Any Quote by Robert Toombs

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no…

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.

— Jack Schlossberg

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

— John Adams

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

— Anatoly Chubais

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

— David Strathairn

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and…

— Robert E. Lee

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

— Frederick Douglass

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are…

— Joseph Story

The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land.

— Andrew Napolitano

Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

— William O. Douglas

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

— Harry S. Truman