Such disruptions and secessions may-as they did in Germany-by emulation increase for a time the efficiency of the organization as a propagandist agency, but they certainly diminish its danger as a possible instrument of insurrection.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The personal secessions from the Federation were not numerous, and not a single local association left the fold.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
They certainly cannot look upon these liberalities as a reward of public service, which they know they have so often deserted; nor yet of those secessions, by which they openly renounced their country; much less of the calumnies and slanders they have been always so ready to entertain against the senate; but will rather conclude that a bounty which seems to have no other visible cause or reason, must needs be the effect of our fear and flattery; and will, therefore, set no limit to their disobedience, nor ever cease from disturbances and sedition.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh