The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson 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
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words.… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein 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
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 right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence… — Antonin Scalia 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
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
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