Declaration Quotes - Page 22

• Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Choices, Heaven

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• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

  Arlen Specter

  War, Should Have, Law

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• So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.

  Randy Forbes

  America, Independence, Liberty

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• Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Rights, Self

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• All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Mourning, Independence

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 25, 2012

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• Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.

  Darlene Zschech

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

  John Calvin

  Promise, Life Is, Mercy

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• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Years, Grace And Mercy

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Pieces, Rhetoric, Glorious

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Independence, Survival

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• In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

  Tony Blair

  War, Wmd, Iraq

  Tony Blair's Speech opening the Commons debate on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• . . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

  Harriet Martineau

  Race, Understanding, Independence

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.151

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• The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Israel

  Barack Obama's Statement on the 61st Anniversary of Israel's Independence, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Way, Destination, Bluffs

  Jonathan Lethem (2008). “You Don't Love Me Yet”, p.208, Vintage

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• 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 P. Young

  Law, Independence, Trying

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• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Wine, Men

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• The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

  Karl Hess

  Order, Independence, Scare

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• Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Morning, Eye

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• A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.

  Richard Russo

  Couple, Reading, Tired

  "Russo: Novelist, fan of first books". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.boston.com. October 9, 2011.

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• The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Bears

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• To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Ideas, Justice, Independence

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• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Independence, Vision

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