AR Governor Orval Faubus
Defends Use of National Guard to Prevent Little Rock School Integration
Discussing the events of September 1957

I do not mean, and I've had no intention of challenging the federal union, but the maintenance of the peace and order of a community is paramount to other consideration. And I found it necessary, in order to preserve the peace and order of the community and to protect the lives even of the Negro students and the Negro people, to take the action which I did.