Declaration Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Success
  • Destiny

• 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

• That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Philosophy
  • Protect

• In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Conversation
  • Dialogue
  • Bases

• 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
  • Long
  • Justice
  • Scripture

• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Declaration
  • Affected
  • Mode

• Seething over inwardly With fierce indignation, In my bitterness of soul, Hear my declaration. I am of one element, Levity my matter, Like enough a withered leaf For the winds to scatter.

  

  Archpoet
  • Matter
  • Declaration
  • Indignation

• those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

  

  William P. Young
  • Trying
  • Independence
  • Declaration

• The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Consumers
  • Habits
  • Governments

• The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Expected
  • Declaration
  • Reciprocate

• What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Independence
  • Doctrine
  • Rome

• The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Modern
  • Independence
  • Scare

• I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • I Believe
  • Declaration

• Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

  

  Betty Goodwin
  • Drawing
  • Vocabulary
  • Declaration

• The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Christianity
  • Happened
  • Declaration

• A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

  

  George Vancouver
  • Declaration
  • Capturing

• Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Investigation
  • Declaration
  • Submission

• Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

  

  William John Locke
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Firsts

• Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

  

  Chip Pitts
  • Moral
  • Chosen
  • Sustainability

• I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Book
  • Church
  • Drunk

• It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Remember
  • Matter
  • Liberty

• Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Purpose
  • Declaration
  • Charter

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