Federal government Quote by Ron Chernow

“Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.”

— Clint Johnson

“Thinking the move suicidal, Grant believed the South would stop short of the “awful leap” of secession.”

— Ron Chernow

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights…

— Irvin S. Cobb

“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

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass

“The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing "democracy" and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln.…

— Murray Rothbard

“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

— Belle Boyd