Top 24 Secede Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Secede

#1. Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Corrine Brown

#2. I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

Henry A. Wise

#3. John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

Andrew Jackson

#4. To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

Karl Hess

#5. If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

G. Edward Griffin

#6. Evaluating and altering the way you use the word "we" in speech, thought and writing is the simplest, yet also one of the most profound changes you can make in your everyday life to secede psychologically from the global collective and become a barbarian.

Jack Donovan

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

Joseph Story

#8. And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Dick Gregory

#9. Our state will not ... secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

John Hunt Morgan

#10. Sometimes you have to force yourself to leave your house even though every introverted bone in your body wants to secede and make you into a human jellyfish.

Jenny Lawson

#11. You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede.

Glenn Beck

#12. A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

Jay Leno

#13. If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

Walter E. Williams

#14. You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.

Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

#15. I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.

Michael Servetus

#16. The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air
a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events.

John Wooden

#18. When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.

Christopher Pike

#19. Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Mark McKinnon