“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers… — Clarence Manion 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
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
The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln 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
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim… — Alan Alda 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
I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People don't even recognize who the Founding Fathers of the United States were. They were exceptional human beings - when you signed… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau 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
