Causes Quote by Sam Houston

To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will…

— Sam Houston

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the…

— Jane Swisshelm

Let her come after me... start a war.

— Audrina Patridge

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

— Louis Farrakhan

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and…

— Carl Sandburg

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly…

— June Jordan

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

— Samuel Adams

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by…

— Bella Abzug

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

— Winfield Scott

“I fight for the Union because America is supposed to be a land where people can be free from tyranny, where families aren’t ripped…

— Alyssa Cole

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I…

— Abraham Lincoln

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil…

— Henry A. Wise