Constitution Quote by Rufus Choate

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind.…

— Ronald Reagan

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen.…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in…

— Haris Pasovic

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 states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses…

— Rodolpho Gonzales

Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller