Yemi Osinbajo Quotes
It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation.
Osinbajo, Yemi. "Osinbajo Warns Against Hate Speeches, Divisive Comments." ThisDay, Leaders & Company Limited, 15 Jun. 2017.
This is the libertarian-conservative flip of the famous JFK quotation {589867}.
When she was campaigning for women’s suffrage, the famous and prestigious Newspaper Editor, Horace Greeley, publicly challenged her by asking if she was willing to also fight for the country as the men did.
Surprising to most Americans today, at that time, the Governors controlled the State militias, and in this case two Governors refused to make their militias available for the war effort. This experience and others led to the change which today allows the Federal Government to “call up” the National Guard of any state regardless of the desire of the State Governor.
Baron Chapple of Hoxton. For the opposite point of view, see {628142}.
When the Republican leadership in 2008 stated that the Republican’s primary objective was to prevent the re-election of Barack Obama, it was not the first time that American politicians admitted that their major objective was to cripple an administration. This quotation shows a very early example. See {592642} for Adams view of Senator Randolph.
Abraham Lincoln’s major political opponent in Illinois agreed with Lincoln on the criticality of preserving the Union from a split off of the Southern States. He tended to be more willing to pander to the South than Lincoln, however they were strong allies on the fundamental issue. However, what the slavery forces in the south wanted and needed to forever protect slavery was not in the power of any President to do, short of ending the democracy. Slavery was doomed in the long run if there was no way to enforce the Supreme Court’s Dredd Scott decision upon (Northern) states whose constitutions and laws made any slave who entered the state free and whose people would not use its police and legal powers to return runaway slaves. It was the abolitionists who won the majority in the battle of public opinion on slavery. It was only a matter of time when slavery would become untenable in the South. Lincoln was unwilling to force the Northern states to return fugitive slaves against the constitution, laws and will of the people of those states as Buchanan said he was (but had a hard time doing). Also Lincoln was unwilling to allow new territories to enter the union if they allowed slavery.
The Egyptian Army, responding to huge demonstrations, ordered the Muslim Brotherhood President to step down in what appeared to be a coup d’etat. There was an American law that required a cut off of foreign aid to any government that had come to power. The American Administration and most of Congress did not want to terminate foreign aid to Egypt, and announced that it could not come to a conclusion as to whether or not there was a coup. They did not say that there was no coups—they just decided not to decide. Since there was no finding of a coups, there was no cutoff. Senator Paul and a few other Senators, observing that there had been a coup, wanted the administration to cut off the foreign aid even though it would be detrimental to our foreign policy. The government must obey the law they argued, regardless of the consequences.
Later that year he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce a desegregation order.
Oluyemi Oluleke "Yemi" Osinbajo GCON, is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who is currently serving as the Vice President of Nigeria, since 29th May, 2015.
