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
I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love… — Rachel Cohn 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
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark Copy Share Image
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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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
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
With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I DECLARE I will live victoriously. I was created in the image of God. I have the DNA of a winner. I… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
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I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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