Declaration Quotes

358 quotes by 284 authors

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here… — Ellen Ullman
I believe the declaration that â€˜all men are created equalâ€™ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest. — Abraham Lincoln
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty… — Colum McCann
I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations. — Henry A. Kissinger
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — John Quincy Adams
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in… — Edmund Burke
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the… — Wole Soyinka
The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through… — Clark Moustakas
It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance… — Lionel Jospin
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence… — Jenny Shipley
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. — Kevin Watkins
We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises .. — Ariel Sharon
The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some… — Albert Gallatin
Envy is a declaration of inferiority. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an… — Henry Adams
I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This… — Joel Osteen

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