Action Quote by Woodrow Wilson

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

— Gordon S. Wood

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

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against…

— William J. Clinton

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and…

— Colson Whitehead

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

“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…

— Charles River Editors

“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] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all…

— Alan Keyes