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Declaration Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If…
- In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,…
- Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established…
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- I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal… — Abraham Lincoln
- We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created… — Calvin Coolidge