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• In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all are created equal "if you so choose." It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.

  Alan Keyes

  Men, Rights, Principles

  Alan Keyes' at the Delaware State Republican Dinner in Wilmington, Delaware, www.keyesarchives.com. April 8, 1995.

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• The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

  Ted Haggard

  Mean, Ideas, Sin

  Ted Haggard (2002). “Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life”, Baker Publishing Group

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• 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

  Independence, World, Way

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• Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.

  Mark Udall

  Mean, Gay, Voice

  "I Support Marriage Equality" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2011.

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• Prayer Declaration I will trust in the covering of Your wings, and in the shadow of Your wings I will trust. Be my defense and refuge in times of trouble. I will sing of Your strength. In the morning I will sing of Your love, for You are my fortress. You are my strength. I sing praise to You, for on You I can rely.

  John Eckhardt

  Morning, Prayer, Wings

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• The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Errors, Giving

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• The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

  Ellen Ullman

  Yellow, Needs, Machines

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• I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.680, Jazzybee Verlag

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• About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

  Colum McCann

  Years, United States, Rags

  "How I Dress Now: Colum McCann" by Colum Mccann, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Writing, Men

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• I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, People, Insult

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• The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

  Edmund Burke

  Perfection, Religion, World

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.232

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• 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

  Men, Independence, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

  Rufus Choate

  Independence, Oratory, Constitution

  Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856

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• Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mean, Office, Violence

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• The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

  Clark Moustakas

  Ideas, Feelings, Individuality

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• It is with great satisfaction that I learned of the adoption by consensus of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and the intolerance associated with it

  Lionel Jospin

  Xenophobia, Racism, Adoption

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• We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises.

  Ariel Sharon

  Believe, Promise, Deeds

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• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Envy, Inferiority

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• A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.

  Henry Adams

  Children, Government, Years

  Henry Adams (2011). “History of the United States of America -”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.

  Joel Osteen

  Problem, Bigs

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• A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Light

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70), 1888.

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• Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ubiquity, Forever, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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