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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.
About the declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776 — that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance of the people of that day and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But, that reasoning cannot be applied to the great charter.
calvin coolidge— Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses (1926), p. 451.
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
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
frederick william robertson— P. 21. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than [England's] declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
william temple— Memoirs, Volume II, p. 255.
There is no chance whatsoever of victory; therefore I agree with the foreign minister that the Potsdam declaration should be accepted at once, with only that one condition about retaining the Emperor.
mitsumasa yonai— Quoted in "Behind Japan's Surrender: The Secret Struggle that Ended an Empire" - Page 66 - by Lester Brooks - 1968
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.”
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.
peter medawar— P. B. Medawar (1986) Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography Oxford University Press, p. 117.
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70).
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]
I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., address to the Harvard Law School Association of New York, New York City (February 15, 1913); Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1934), p. 102.
A wise man should never resolve upon any thing, at least never let the world know his resolution; for if he cannot arrive at that, he is ashamed. How many things did the resolve in his declaration concerning Scotland, never to do, and yet did them all?
— Selden, John (1689). Table Talk: Being the Discourses. T. White. p. 175.
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).
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.
ralph waldo emerson— A lecture on 'Books' delivered in 1864; the quoted phrase 'glittering generalities' had been used by Rufus Choate to describe the declaration of the rights of man in the Preamble to the Constitution (The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903-4) Vol. 10, p. 88, note 1).
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.
seishirō itagaki— Quoted in "Red Star Over Malaya" - Page 130 - by Boon Kheng Cheah - History - 2003
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
While the declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy.
robert h. jackson— P. 8. (The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics (1941))
At its 10th December Conference in Geneva the Future of Human Rights Forum endorsed new structures and mechanisms to advance the realization of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly 65 years ago. Among important initiatives discussed by a high level panel was the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly aimed at empowering world citizens and giving them direct participation in the political processes that affect them. Democracy lives from consultation and participation and a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly can meaningfully advance this goal.
alfred de zayas— 2013 Future of Human Rights Forum [12]
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.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence (1776).
The doctrine of the declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document false to the name American.
calvin coolidge— Calvin Coolidge, Equal Rights (1920)
The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.
— John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Curtis Publishing Company v. Butts, 1967).
