Via ThinkProgress, here’s Ron Paul picking up the secession firestorm Rick Perry lit when he put the possibility of Texas leaving the Union on the table:

Partial transcript:

[Perry] really stirred some of the liberal media, where they started screaming about: ‘What is going on here, this is un-American.’ I heard one individual say ‘this is treasonous to even talk about it.’ Well, they don’t know their history very well, because if they think about it...it is very American to talk about secession. That’s how we came in being. Thirteen colonies seceded from the British and established a new country. So secession is a very much American principle.