Declaration Quote by 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 the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person…

— Alan Bock

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document.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

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen,…

— Mike Huckabee

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

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

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and…

— Colson Whitehead

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

— Rufus Choate

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the…

— Mike Crapo

“The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses…

— Rodolpho Gonzales

In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here…

— Ezra Taft Benson