Best Declaration Of Independence Words
117 Declaration Of Independence quotes by 90 unique authors
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists…
— Pat Robertson
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A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've…
— Richard Russo
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Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
— Paul Ryan
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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
— Howard Zinn
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried…
— David McCullough
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those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration…
— William P. Young
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According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do…
— David McCullough
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence…
— Terence McKenna
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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They…
— Howard Zinn
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The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.…
— Howard Zinn
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We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from…
— Mark Levin
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Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
— Howard Zinn
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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty,…
— Chris Gardner
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If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail,…
— Frank I. Cobb
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Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born,…
— William J. Clinton
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Brandon McCaw did a essay on Television about the U.S.district courts are the trial courts serving as the original point of entry for almost all…
— Brandon McCaw
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