Declaration Quote by Colson Whitehead

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into…

— Clarence Manion

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel…

— Ezra Taft Benson

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions.…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

— Paul Gillmor

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all…

— Alan Keyes

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not…

— Anonymous

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality…

— Harry V. Jaffa

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence…

— William J. Clinton

So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue…

— Randy Forbes

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the…

— Jimmy Carter