Declaration Quotes

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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all.… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to… — H. V. Evatt
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their… — Paul Polman
Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business to slow and… — Irene Rosenfeld
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every… — Abraham Lincoln
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence,… — Albert Einstein
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is… — Joseph Story
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but… — John Dickinson
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto… — John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so. — James Otis
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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