Secession Quotes
Secession Quote of the day
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
