Civil war Quote by Salmon P. Chase

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg…

— Bruce Catton

Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side. We cannot…

— Roy Cooper

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and…

— Naomi Wolf

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the…

— Antonin Scalia

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain…

— Jonathan Turley

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave…

— Adlai Stevenson I

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida…

— Bruce Catton

People don't realize that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States lives in a state where either medical or recreational marijuana are…

— John Hickenlooper

“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...”

— T. Rafael Cimino

And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and…

— Jon Porter

“In his campaign for the presidency, Reagan mastered the "excision of the language of race from conservative public discourse"… For example, when Reagan kicked…

— Michelle Alexander

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton