Declaration Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

  George Pattison

  Atheist, Reading, Pride

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.

  Joshua Wong

  Fighting, Years, Risk

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."

  John Eliot

  Humility, Men, Reality

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• The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration that Iraq submitted. Other members of the security council are studying the declaration, as is Unmovic and IAEA, and I would not make a judgment as to whether or not the declaration will be found deficient and whether or not that might lead to a material breach and whether or not, if it did, that would lead to action on the part of the United Nations.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, United States, Might

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Important, Use

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• This declaration alone will help stop the crisis of illegal crossings and illegal overstays, very importantly.

  Donald Trump

  Helping, Illegal, Crisis

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person first in the political scheme of things and made the legitimacy of governments and ruling classes contingent on their success at preserving individual rights.

  Alan Bock

  Class, Rights, Government

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• 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

  America, Independence, Immigration

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Law, Justice, Doe

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• If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were saying and believing and articulating in their public statements. It would all sound rather familiar.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Believe, Independence, Sound

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Soul, Outcomes

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• If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.

  Jill Stein

  War, Past, Russia

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Independence, Spirit

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• I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• 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

  Father, Long, Independence

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• I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, Average, Knowing

  Joel Osteen (2012). “I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

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• 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.

  Religious, Men, Rights

  "The Opening of the American Mind" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 23, 1989.

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• Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

  John Locke

  Men, Law, Action

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.305

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