Declaration Quote by Barbara Sher

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

— Simon Schama

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

— Mark Twain

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 of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

— Paul Gillmor

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

— Mary Ruefle

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the…

— John Quincy Adams

The Declaration of Independence...is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to 'deny or disparage' other rights is…

— Laura Schlessinger

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

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and…

— William Lloyd Garrison

The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person…

— Alan Bock

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

— Thomas Jefferson

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

— Cory Booker