quote by Dick Gregory

In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

— Dick Gregory

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Declaration of independence quote To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before.




Declaration of independence quote Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced

Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.




Declaration of independence quote A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have suff


Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.


Declaration of independence quote Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence

Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence




The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'


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.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.


I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.


Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here.


If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Take the American declaration of Independence.

It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.



I play a curator, the most American part you can think of.

My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show.

Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

If all men are created equal, that is final.


The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.


It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana.


I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.


Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

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.

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