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

• 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 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

• Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Opinion
  • Impossible
  • Declaration

• 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

• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Envy
  • Declaration
  • Inferiority

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Impossible
  • Dare
  • Declaration

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Trying
  • Russia
  • Declaration

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Humanity
  • Independence
  • Emblem

• I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Present
  • Slavery
  • Proclamation

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