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Quotes About Declaration

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
~ Laurie Anderson
I believe you can speak things into existence.
~ Jay-Z
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
~ Paul Ryan
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.
~ Seishiro Itagaki
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
~ George Grosz
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
~ John Lennon
I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.
~ Heinz Fischer
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
~ Ely Culbertson
Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.
~ William Vaughn Moody
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
~ Carl L. Becker
Your say is not yours unless you say it
~ Satyajeet Mujgule
The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~ A. L. Kitselman
I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.
~ William Bronk
The sun is ever glorious in the most cloudy day, but it appears not so till it hath scattered the clouds that muffle it up from the sight of the lower world. God is glorious when the world sees him not, but his declarative glory then appears when the glory of his mercy, truth, and faithfulness break forth in his people's salvation. Now
~ William Gurnall
this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one can legitimately lose.
~ David Brion Davis
This isn't a negotiation, it's not even a conversation. I'm just setting out the terms, that's all.
~ David Lagercrantz
Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move!
~ Kenneth Copeland
Faith is agreeing with God and saying what He says about you.
~ John Osteen
Take your dreams and the promises God has put in your heart, and every day declare that they will come to pass.
~ Joel Osteen
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
~ Thomas Paine
God is more interested in declaring than explaining.
~ Matt Chandler
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
~ William Paul Young, The Shack