Quotes About Declaration

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

Geneva and I shall declare your Ambassador in Lagos persona non grata.

The idea was there from the beginning: equality. And yet you can read every page of your pocket Constitution and you will not find, in the original Constitution, the word equal, or equality, even though equality was a main theme of the Declaration of Independence. The word equal becomes a part of the Constitution in the Fourteenth Amendment.

It may without exaggeration be said today that we are having something of an excitement.' [New York Times Baltimore correspondent, reporting on Maryland's declaration of a state of emergency as Confederate troops threatened Baltimore and Washington, D.C.]

Celeste) Be the hero, Matty. Come on. You're supposed to be the hero now. The romatic lead. I know that, too, he said. Matt did not hesitate a moment longer. Julie, I love you. I absolutely love you.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election, 'This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better.'

The hamster queen, looking around the room, declared "I am going to bed" in much the same tones that one would declare war on a rival nation.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

at the beginning of September, parliament declared that those who opposed its intentions were 'delinquents' or 'malignant and disaffected persons' whose property could be confiscated.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

In the gleaming briefcase I carried ten typewritten pages I had written for International Relations the year before on the Balfour Declaration.

I hear this, Genevieve, the words love and hope being thrown out into empty air and all I want is to declare war on the planet.

Some persons may, perhaps, think that this declaration is somewhat autocratic and self-assertive. They will quarrel with the novelist for wanting to be an historian, and will call him to account for writing politics. I am simply fulfilling an obligation — that is my reply. The work I have undertaken will be as long as a history; I was compelled to explain the logic of it, hitherto unrevealed, and its principles and moral purpose.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.

An artist who is 'anti-censorship' is essentially waving a white flag; declaring their work to be inconsequential; a smudge; a scribble, a doddle, or a polka dot.

Kublai went on as if he had not spoken. "Before you all, in the lands of my enemies, I declare myself great khan of the nation, of the khanates under my brothers, Hulegu and Arik-Boke, of the Chagatai khanate and all others. I declare myself great khan of the Chin lands and the Sung. I have spoken and my word is iron!

War may be 'declared'; peace cannot.

I NAME THIS LAND TOMORROW, FOR IT SHALL LAST FOREVERMORE!

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover.