Declaration Quotes

• But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Lying
  • Common
  • Privacy

• 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
  • People
  • Failing
  • Independence

• 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
  • Women
  • Constitution

• While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress...It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • Country
  • Free
  • Purpose

• I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Soul
  • Made
  • My Soul

• Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Understand
  • Declaration

• 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
  • American
  • America
  • History

• I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Issue
  • Turkey

• Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Work
  • Action
  • Discipline

• The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Different
  • American
  • Freedom

• You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be put into the foundation of a peace treaty. If you carefully read the text of this document, you will see that the declaration will take effect after we sign a peace treaty and the two islands [Kunashir and Shikotan] are transferred to Japan. It does not say on what terms they should be transferred and what side will exercise sovereignty over them.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Exercise
  • Doe
  • Term

• What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Free
  • Election

• 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 Nazareth
  • God
  • Law Of Nature
  • Human Sanction

• Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Trying
  • Russia
  • Declaration

• Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

  

  William Henry Ashley
  • Friendly
  • Sincerity
  • Chiefs

• Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Humanity
  • Independence
  • Emblem

• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Envy
  • Declaration
  • Inferiority

• I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Persons

• Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not be fulfilled unilaterally, by the USSR alone.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Soviet
  • Fulfilled
  • USSR

• Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Healthy
  • Rights

• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Soul
  • Wine
  • Laughter

• 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
  • Victory
  • Stand

• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Money
  • Husband
  • Taste

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