Abel P. Upshur quotes

Abel P. Upshur quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers”
-- Abel P. Upshur

#States Quotes #Secession Quotes

“Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”
“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”
“Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.”
“Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers”
“A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!”
“Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.”
“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

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