Edward Snowden Quotes

We hold these truths to be self-evident …

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal …

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Founding Fathers

Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.

All honor to Jefferson—the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.

the signing of the Declaration of Independence … This was the first public assertion of equality.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

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

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - 'Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.