Home Front
Governor Joseph E. Brown was a leading secessionist in 1861, taking his state out of the Union and into the Confederacy. A firm believer in state's rights, he defied the national government's wartime policies. He resisted the Confederate military draft, and tried to keep as many soldiers at home as possible (to fight off invaders, he said). Brown challenged Confederate impressment of animals, goods, and slaves. Several other governors followed his lead.
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Famous quotes containing the words home and/or front:
“Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)