Declaration Quote by Paul Gillmor

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

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

— Rufus Choate

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and…

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

I believe that the Constitution is an enduring document.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

— Rafael Cruz

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip…

— Woodrow Wilson

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment…

— John Charles Polanyi

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to…

— Rene Cassin

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