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Quotes About Declaration

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
~ Samuel Eliot Morison
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
~ Moshe Dayan
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.
~ Andy Borowitz
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
~ Harvey Milk
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.
~ James Madison
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
~ Will Durant
What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.
~ George Pataki
He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.
~ Randy Glasbergen
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
~ Jeff Bezos
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
~ Harriet Martineau
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
~ Herman Melville
To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.
~ Tim Kaine
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir
~ Thomas Jefferson
Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence was not without some collateral
~ James Weldon Johnson
I'd like to say I'm R&ampB's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&ampB.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&ampB.'
~ Jamie Foxx
Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.
~ Javier Marías
The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
~ Albert Gallatin
Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. The work of the great Ghibellin is a declaration of war against the Papacy, by bold revelations of the Mysteries.
~ Albert Pike