Declaration Quotes

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That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson
That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not… — Patti LaBelle
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of… — Harry S. Truman
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between… — Barack Obama
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a… — Ronald Reagan
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We… — Barack Obama
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the… — Robert Reich
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if… — John Brisben Walker
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual… — James E. Talmage
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though… — Jonathan Haidt
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been… — Woodrow Wilson
Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. ... Nothing… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of… — John Brown
You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If… — Alan Keyes
If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all… — Alan Keyes
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created… — Alan Keyes
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think… — Stephen King

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