Quotes About Secession

#1. It was stupid to hope for more. But it wouldn't be the first time her heart and her head had operated in opposition. The secret, foolish desire that she would be the one woman who he wanted more from.

Nikki Logan

#2. In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

John Sergeant Wise

#3. A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters," a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860.

Clint Johnson

#4. Even amid a state of open warfare, these law-abiding men felt obligated to issue a formal document, giving a dispassionate list of their reasons for secession.

Ron Chernow

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

Clint Johnson

#6. No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Richard Engel

#8. What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

#9. 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.'

Salman Rushdie

#10. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.

Patrick White

#11. The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Belle Boyd

#12. Television is such a mediocre medium.

Elizabeth Montgomery

#13. As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

Jubal Early

#14. I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

Charley Reese

#15. It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.

Slobodan Milosevic

#16. Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the earliest date, to resolutely fight and curb 'Taiwan independence' activities in any forms.

Jia Qinglin

#17. Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even

Peter Kreeft

#18. If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

Daniel Webster

#19. Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#20. I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

Stephanie Tyler

#21. The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Edmund Yates

#22. 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.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

Hannah Whitall Smith

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

Belle Boyd

#25. I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest. Up to that time it had been the policy of our army, certainly of that portion commanded by me, to protect the property of the citizens whose territory was invaded, without regard to their sentiments, whether Union or Secession.

Ulysses S. Grant

#26. Without the scrape, there is no scar."
"I could live without the scars."
"But that's where the music is.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#27. Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

#28. Southern newspapers hungry for fodder to roil the secession debate fed their subscribers the most inciteful material they could unearth in the Northern press. Northern journals scoured Southern papers for similarly provocative reports designed to confirm hotheaded Southern disloyalty.

Harold Holzer

#29. The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Gail Collins

#30. 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 ...

Andrew Jackson

#31. From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#32. Give me a hidden eddy
a residence free from dust and noise
paths of newly trampled grass
clouds above for neighbors
birds to help me sing
no one asking for sermons
springtime for this Saha tree
nowadays lasts how many years

Han-shan

#33. This universe is your home. So make your home peaceful by loving, caring and sharing.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers

Abel P. Upshur

#35. an easy smile, which he gives away for free.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#36. God is always with the strongest battalions.

Frederick The Great

#37. Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

Ron Paul

#38. All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.

LeRoy Pope Walker

#39. The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

William Falconer

#40. Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

Larry Wilmore