America and americans Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

— H. L. Mencken

“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,…

— Joseph Befumo

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State…

— Stephen A. Douglas

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

— Joseph Story

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

— Thomas Jefferson

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I…

— Abraham Lincoln

“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will of the…

— Mark R. Levin