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The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.
ted haggard— Haggard, Ted (September 2002). Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life. Regal Books. pp. p. 110. ISBN 0830730559.
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.
— 1988 Le Pouvoir et la vie.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
romain gary— As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223
This is a challenge to the entire trade union movement in Ireland - a declaration of war on the wages and working conditions of all workers.
joe higgins— On the outsourcing of jobs by Irish Ferries in November 2005. Irish Independent
How few of us have made our individual declaration of independence, and until we do that, we are not free.
— Diary entry, 1893-01-02
Nothing in our Constitution is plainer than that declaration of a war is entrusted only to Congress. Of course, a state of war may in fact exist without a formal declaration. But no doctrine that the Court could promulgate would seem to me more sinister and alarming than that a President whose conduct of foreign affairs is so largely uncontrolled, and often even is unknown, can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation's armed forces to some foreign venture.
robert h. jackson— Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (concurring).
However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like not even (one braces one's self to risk the declaration) a particular kind of writing.
Henry James— Flaubert (1893)
Because finally, “the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience” is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider “the declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia as the basis and foundation of government,” it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.
james madison— § 15. Often misquoted as “Religion is the basis and foundation of government.”
Little by little, but steadily as man's march to the grave, we have been giving up the OLD for the NEW faith. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a “sacred right of self-government.” These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon ; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.
— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854), Online text Speech at Peoria, Illinois, in Reply to Senator Douglas (16 October 1854); published in The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1894) Vol. 2
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 290. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
And now we come to the most lurid Underworld of all cities that of post-war Berlin. Ever since the declaration of peace, Berlin found its outlet in the wildest dissipation imaginable. The German is gross in his immorality, he likes his Halb-Welt or underworld pleasures to be devoid of any Kultur or refinement, he enjoys obscenity in a form which even the Parisian would not tolerate.
— Netley Lucas, Ladies of the Underworld, 1927. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, p.1. ISBN 092291558X.
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.
— CELAC / Zone of Peace: “A key step to countering the globalization of militarism” – UN Expert [71]
They went to war against a preamble, they fought seven years against a declaration.
Daniel Webster— Speech on the Presidential Protest. May 17, 1834.
It is not too late to stop this war. We must march until there is a declaration of peace and reconciliation.
— Jesse Jackson cited in Politicians, human rights activists and celebrities joined millions of ordinary people on the streets of Europe on Saturday to protest against a rush to war with Iraq. These are some of their views at CNN.com, 16 February 2003 Jackson was asked about his views on the build up before the Iraq war.
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.
henry adams— A History of the United States of America During the First Administration of James Madison (1890), Vol. II, Ch. VI: Meeting of the Twelfth Congress; 1921 edition, p. 123
The declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it.
john adams— Letter to Benjamin Rush (21 June 1811); published in Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle (1892), p. 287; also quoted in TIME magazine (25 October 1943)
Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the declaration of Independence.
rufus choate— Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856). Six years earlier, Choate gave a lecture in Providence which was reviewed by Franklin J. Dickman in the Journal of December 14, 1849. Unless Choate used the words "glittering generalities", and Dickman made reference to them, it would seem as if Dickman must have the credit of originating the catchword. Dickman wrote: "We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent". Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
And our enduring strength is also reflected in our respect for an international system that protects the rights of both nations and people -- a United Nations and a Universal declaration of Human Rights; international law and the means to enforce those laws. But we also know that those rules are not self-executing; they depend on people and nations of goodwill continually affirming them.
— Barack Obama, Address to European Youth delivered on March 26, 2014 at Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Belgium
Here, in the first paragraph of the declaration , is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?
susan b. anthony— On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the declaration of Independence says.
bill clinton— From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996
The conception of political equality from the declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments could mean only one thing one person, one vote.
william o. douglas— Writing for the court, Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368, 381 (1963).
When our founding fathers put their signatures on the declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.
mike huckabee— Republican Presidential Debate, 2007-10-21, quoted in "The Republican Debate on Fox News Channel". The New York Times. 2007-10-21. Retrieved on 2011-03-01. asked his opinion on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's position to do nothing to change the laws that keep abortion legal
The CELAC declaration is a positive sign towards the advancement of an international order which can and should be more democratic and equitable, based on the principles of the sovereignty of States and peoples and on international solidarity.
— CELAC / Zone of Peace: “A key step to countering the globalization of militarism” – UN Expert [74]
Its Constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the declaration of Independence.
— Rufus Choate, letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856).
However, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified, As Kay Holloway wrote, the failure of the signatories to bring the treaty into force ‘resulted in the abandonment of thousands of defenceless peoples Armenians and Greeks to the fury of their persecutors, by engendering subsequent holocausts in which the few survivors of the 1915 Armenian massacres perished.” The Treaty of Sevres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 that included a ‘declaration of Amnesty’ for all offences committed between 1 August 1914 and 20 November 1922.
— William Schabas, Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes, p.22
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal declaration of Human Rights.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, in Paris on December 10, 1948. The United Nations General Assembly was gathered in the recently built Palais Chaillot when the chairwoman of the UN Commission on Human Rights rose to give a speech.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
— United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. [55].
Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the declaration of the Rights of the Child, 'the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth'....For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier....States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.
— United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.
