“South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding. The truth is the modern Virginians departed from the teachings of the Father's.”

Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.
Letter 33, 10.
Letters, Book VII

Letter to George Washington (26 April 1779)

Letter http://www.familytales.org/dbDisplay.php?id=ltr_wfs1343&person=wfs to William H. Seward (3 March 1861); though the only suggestion from this letter commonly quoted, this was actually the last and final alternative of what he considered to be 4 options available to President Abraham Lincoln in dealing with the secessionist states.

As quoted in "The Historical Roots of Dylann Roof's Racism: South Carolina’s warped public display of its white-supremacist history confronts South Carolinians, white and black, with a stark message about who rules the state" http://www.thenation.com/article/210817/historical-roots-dylann-roofs-racism# (25 June 2015), The Nation
2010s

Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 231
Context: South Carolina cites, loosely, but with substantial accuracy, some of the language of the original Declaration. That Declaration does say that it is the right of the people to abolish any form of government that becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established. But South Carolina does not repeat the preceding language in the earlier document: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'.

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 231

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

February 18, 2010 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35811_SC_Republican_Wants_to_Ban_Money&only