The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government,… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
“The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to… — Gordon S. Wood 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
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
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
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
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
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and… — Clark Moustakas Copy Share Image
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to… — Augustus Toplady 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
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along… — Milton Friedman 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
If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned… — Vladimir Lenin 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
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