Secession Quotes

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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.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

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.

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

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

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

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

Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers

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.

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

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.'