July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“ Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
“The Declaration of Independence says that ‘all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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