Famous Declaration Quotes & Sayings

No one can outrun their heart. — Gabbo De La Parra

I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me. — Andrew Tan

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. — John Bunyan

I have a really powerful urge to see things work. — Bill Budge

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J.G. Holland

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval. — Zadie Smith

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you. — William Penn

The "pursuit of happiness" is such a key element of the "American (ideological) dream" that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: "We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Where did the somewhat awkward "pursuit of happiness" come from in this famous opening passage of the US Declaration of Independence? The origin of it is John Locke, who claimed that all men had the natural rights of life, liberty, and property - the latter was replaced by "the pursuit of happiness" during negotiations of the drafting of the Declaration, as a way to negate the black slaves' right to property. — Slavoj Zizek

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

the president began dictating what became his famous declaration of hope for "a world founded upon four essential human freedoms" - freedom of speech and expression; freedom of religion; freedom from want; and freedom from fear. These were, he said, not a vision for "a distant millennium" but "a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. — Douglas Brinkley

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. — Martin Seligman

2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. — Winston S. Churchill

John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine. — Tim Pat Coogan

Dealing dreams and destruction to a pattern plagued world. — Luke Rhinehart

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

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. — Annette Thomas