Charter Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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 principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being,…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Rufus Choate

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The original equality…

— Harry V. Jaffa

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Ronald Reagan

“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

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

— Alan Bock

The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens…

— Calvin Coolidge

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