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Tag Name "Secession" (14)

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Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers
Abel P. Upshur
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Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
Ron Paul
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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
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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.
Ammon Hennacy
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
Belle Boyd
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If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
Daniel Webster
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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
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It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
Slobodan Milosević
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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
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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
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The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.
Kirkpatrick Sale
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All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.
LeRoy Pope Walker
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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
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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman