“The Declaration of Independence is not a bargaining chip. Not to me.”— Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Ben Gates, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com
“I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.”— Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Ben Gates, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com
“For us to embrace the methods and morals of communism in order to defeat Communist aggression would be a moral disaster worse than any physical catastrophe. If that should come to pass, then the Constitution and the Declaration would be utterly dead and what we are doing today would be the gloomiest…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as m…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com