Secession Quotes

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

James Louis Petigru

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

Murray N. Rothbard

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Ludwig von Mises