Class Quote by Alan Bock

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen.…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the…

— Jimmy Carter

“The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses…

— Rodolpho Gonzales

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into…

— Clarence Manion

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not…

— Anonymous

The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality…

— Harry V. Jaffa

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in…

— Haris Pasovic

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the…

— Mike Crapo