George Corley Wallace

“ There can be no submission to the theory that the Central Government is anything but a servant of the people. We are a God-fearing people—not government-fearing people. We practice today the free heritage bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers.
I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign State, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government. I claim today for all the people of the State of Alabama those rights reserved to them under the Constitution of the United States. ”

“ When the Constitution of the United States was enacted, a government was formed upon the premise that people, as individuals, are endowed with the rights of life, liberty, and property, and with the right of local self-government. ”

“ This nation was never meant to be a unit of one ... but a united of the many ... this is the exact reason our freedom-loving forefathers established the states, so as to divide the rights and powers among the many states, insuring that no central power could gain master government control. ”