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If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

~Dennis Chavez

Topics: Anything Battle Boy Constitution Correct Declaration Did Die Died Employment Fair Field Independence Necessary Practices Vain Who Worth

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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.

~Diane Kruger

Topics: American Archives Curator Declaration Independence Most National Part Play Protect Think Washington Work You

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In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

~Doc Hastings

Topics: American Bravely Centuries Continue Declaration Enjoy Generations Independence Liberties Millions Nation Our Over Same Served Signing Since Those Two Uniform

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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Accident Americana Culture Declaration First Independence Intention Novel Picture Private Statement Use Whole

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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Also Appeared Attention Command Commentary Constitution Declaration Each Eight Ever Had Independence Jefferson Least Madison Most Only Other President Say Searching Served States Them United United States Wrote Years

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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Affirmation After Carter Country Days Declaration Diary Equality Freed He His Independence Meant Must Out Owner Plantation Read Ringing Send Slaves Steal Support Them Two Virginia Whether Wondered You

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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Declaration Explaining Historical Independence Jefferson Possible Said Scholarship Think Thomas Thomas Jefferson Who Would

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Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.

~Eric Massa

Topics: Bankrupt British Burned Debt Declaration Either Get Ground Half Independence Look Lost Men Missed Most Only Patrol Possessions Reason Remaining Road Signed Them Were Who

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The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost two years between the sinking and the war declaration, and President Wilson's request for war never mentions the Lusitania.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Almost Between Cause Declaration Entering Never President Request Sinking Two War Wilson Years

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The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Against Declaration Divine Forth Independence Justification Kings Moral Political Rebellion Right Set Tradition

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