Declaration Quote by Henry Thomas Buckle

“American revolutionaries would invoke the same creation story against the British king’s claim to divine right, declaring: We hold these truths to be self-evident;…

— Elaine Pagels

“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I…

— Christopher Titus

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

Every king was once a crying baby. Every great building was once a blueprint. It's not where you are today, but where you'll reach…

— Abhishek Tiwari

Every king was once a crying baby. Every great building was once a blueprint. Its not where you are today but where you'll reach…

— Nishan Panwar

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“When the boys were little, I used to take them to the gleaming white Jefferson Memorial at the edge of the Tidal Basin. Under…

— Khizr Khan

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....

— Frederick Douglass

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski