Quotes About Signers

They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.

Fifty-two of the fifty-six signers of the American Declaration were orthodox Christians who believed in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or as they would be known today, "an extremist Fundamentalist hate group."28

The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?