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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. -- Henry Van Dyke
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. -- Gerald F. Lieberman
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. -- Treat Williams
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. -- Paul Gillmor
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. -- Will Durant
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. -- Mitch McConnell
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. -- Howard Zinn
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
When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton's misconduct. -- Jeff Greenfield
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. -- John Adams
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. -- Sarah Vowell
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. -- Wynton Marsalis
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. -- Michael McCaul
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. -- Don DeLillo
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. -- Victoria Woodhull
Irreverence is a declaration of independence. -- Barbara Sher
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence. -- Bill Milkowski
I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence. -- Gordon S. Wood
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
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
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off -- Eric Idle
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. -- Maurice Saatchi
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. -- Abraham Lincoln
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. -- Rafael Cruz
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. -- Carl Bernstein
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes. -- Gregg Harper
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. -- Cory Booker
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia. -- Thomas Jefferson
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. -- Boris Yeltsin
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress. -- Rand Paul
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. -- Doc Hastings
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. -- Jim Gerlach
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary. -- Dennis Chavez
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. -- Andrew Cuomo
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national. -- Malcolm Wallop
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. -- Leland Stanford
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. -- Samuel Dash
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet. -- Pat Robertson
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers -- Mercy Otis Warren
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. -- Benjamin F. Wade
I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. -- Nicolas Cage
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. -- Ayn Rand
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. -- Abraham Lincoln
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. -- Andy Borowitz
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. -- John Adams
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. -- Rufus Choate
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men. -- Abraham Lincoln
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. -- Carl L. Becker
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? -- Harriet Martineau
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought. -- George Soros
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
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
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.
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress. -- Samuel Adams
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says. -- William J. Clinton
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. -- Cokie Roberts
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 Virginia. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia -- Boris Yeltsin
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad. -- Paul Begala
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington. -- Diane Kruger
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll

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