Declaration Quote by Gordon S. Wood

The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to be lauded…

— Gordon S. Wood

“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man…

— Joseph Lewis

“Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty do, by…

— John Adams

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as…

— Gordon S. Wood

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

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The best account of events in Pennsylvania leading up to the Declaration of Independence is found in David Freeman Hawke, In the Midst of…

— Francis Fox

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin…

— Thomas Jefferson