#states

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

— Belle Boyd

#certain #consequence #election #individually #lincoln

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

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all. ↗

— John Bruton

#deterred #fear #organisations #retaliation #states

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#around #business #civilization #competition #everything

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead. ↗

— Richard Burr

#ahead #aisle #cannot #challenges #forward

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#fiscally #must #responsible #states #tax

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#electoral #europe #laws #more #states

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#clear #gay #hate #i #make