Best Declaration Of Independence Quotations
117 Declaration Of Independence quotes by 90 unique authors
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In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that…
— Doc Hastings
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates…
— J. Reuben Clark
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We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of…
— Winston Churchill
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the…
— Don DeLillo
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It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
— Mitch McConnell
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True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the…
— Maurice Saatchi
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it…
— Benjamin F. Wade
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I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society…
— Leland Stanford
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
— Carl Bernstein
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If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did…
— Dennis Chavez
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Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of…
— Samuel Dash
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The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
— Paul Gillmor
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,…
— John F. Kennedy
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The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
— Rufus Choate
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A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an…
— Henry Adams
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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take…
— Jim Gerlach
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The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the…
— Andrew Cuomo
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
— Will Durant
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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
— Henry Van Dyke
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the…
— Diane Kruger
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Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a…
— Wynton Marsalis
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