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Declaration Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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…
- The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were…
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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously… — Russell Baker
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
- As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln
- Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck
- Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run… — Abraham Lincoln
- 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