declaration quotes

During my seven years in office,I was in love with seventeen million French women† I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.

-Vale  ry Giscard d'Estaing
  Le Pouvoir et la  vie.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir† America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.