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• If you believe in the values of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, if you're willing to work hard and play by the rules, you are part of our family. And we're proud to be with you.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Hard Work, Rights

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1416, Best Books on

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• When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

  Mike Huckabee

  Father, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  The Republican Presidential debate on Fox News Channel in Orlando, Fla., www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2007.

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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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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• 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.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Vets, Culture

  "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook". Book by Peter Senge, 1994.

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• 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

  Writing, Self, Hands

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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• Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

  Ari Fleischer

  War, People, Looks

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• I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Reading

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• When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

  John Tyler

  Rights, America, Independence

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• Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

  Mitt Romney

  Father, Mean, Commitment

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Tyrants, Independence

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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• A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

  Laurence Sterne

  Kings, Simile, Concise

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.221

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• Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Heart, Independence

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• Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Self, Diaries

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• Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

  J. G. Holland

  Mouths, Moral, Conviction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 290, 1895.

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• Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  Fighting, Order, Arms

  "Red Star Over Malaya". Book by Boon Kheng Cheah, p. 130, 2003.

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• This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Strong, Principles, Example

  "CELAC / Zone of Peace: 'A key step to countering the globalization of militarism' – UN Expert". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights News Item, www.ohchr.org. February 03, 2014.

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• Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wise, Military, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Thinking, Sight, Long

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• Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Angel, Names, Perfection

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• The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Men, Self

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• 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

  Men, Names, Soldier

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