Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. — Treat Williams 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 Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence. — Bill Milkowski Copy Share Image
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field… — Dennis Chavez Copy Share Image
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if… — Peter Weller 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
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
I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are a number of Americans who've been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give… — Randy Glasbergen Copy Share Image
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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