Declaration Quotes

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To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,… — Henri Nouwen
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic… — Pope Paul VI
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations… — David McIntosh
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued… — Abraham Lincoln
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand
If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration… — Paul Washer
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out… — Vladimir Lenin
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization;… — Chuck Baldwin
Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you… — Jack Canfield
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons â€“ as declarations or to wound â€“ I have written songs for… — Nick Cave
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to… — Peter Medawar
It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most… — Benjamin Tucker
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. — George Vancouver
I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with… — George Lincoln Rockwell
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of… — Walter E. Williams
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. — Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary… — Malcolm Wallop

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