Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the… — Arthur L. Herman 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
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were… — Samuel P. Huntington 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
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but… — Benjamin F. Wade 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
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. — Treat Williams Copy Share Image
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Congress actually authorized the printing and payment for a Bible. That illustrates the high regard that the Bible was held in early… — Steve Green 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
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a essay on Television about the U.S.district courts are the trial courts serving as the original point of entry… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image