Declared Quotes
360 quotes by 304 authors
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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst…
— Barbara Pym
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They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at…
— Eugene V. Debs
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the…
— George Gissing
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede…
— Barack Obama
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I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
— Charles Darwin
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of…
— Patricia Schroeder
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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
— David Souter
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a…
— Margo St. James
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How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal…
— Piero Ferrucci
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The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire…
— Jimmy Carter
Who Wrote These Declared Quotes
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