Historical Document Quotes

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

[Describing the Constitution:] ... the very finest document ever to come from the mind of men.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

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

The Potsdam Declaration is unworthy of public notice.

The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

Even though our non-Indian friends may cherish (the Declaration of Independence), I would say that we probably meet it with some mixed emotions among the Indian people. I would hope that during my lifetime, that people of all races would live up to the statements in the document.

I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut