Declaration Quotes - Page 19

• Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.

  Jonathan Ames

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal, Independence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.

  William Lee Miller

  Nice, Book, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Children, July, Independence

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• Congress actually authorized the printing and payment for a Bible. That illustrates the high regard that the Bible was held in early American society. We see biblical ideas woven into the founding documents of our country like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence explicity states "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." This is a biblical idea stemming from the dignity of all people - Psalm 139:14 - we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

  Steve Green

  Country, Biblical, Men

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Rights, Evil

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• Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Submission, Investigation

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• Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

  Barbara Sher

  Independence, Irreverence, Declaration Of Independence

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• I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Syntax, Language, Uncertain

  Linux Focus Interview, www.linuxfocus.org.

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• I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation. ...I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Independence, Liberty

  Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.aps.org. October 4, 1994.

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• I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 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. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  God, Kings, Men

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• The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

  David O. McKay

  Destiny, Two, America

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• Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

  T. Harv Eker

  Today, Courageous, Spite

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 13, 2016

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• Today's Declaration: I focus on what I want, not on what i don't want.

  T. Harv Eker

  Focus, Want, Today

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 04, 2016

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

  Milton Friedman

  Independence, Three, Firsts

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• In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Names, Independence

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

  Fred Rogers

  Hope And Faith, Enormous

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

  Dick Gregory

  Father, Independence, United States

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• We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Destiny, Independence

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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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• 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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• 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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