State Secession Quotes

No State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union;

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

The right of a State to secede is not an open or debatable question

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.

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?

From developments now being made in South Carolina, it is perfectly manifest that a party exists in that state seeking a dissolution of the Union.