If the Declaration has not been forgotten, if it has been much criticized, much denounced and much applauded, if it has never lacked “friends” or “enemies,” no doubt one essential reason is that it was an event, or at least the chief symbol of an event of surpassing historical importance, as well as a literary […]
Declaration of Independence Quotes
The Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny… The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Sink or swim, lie or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination. (After deciding to cast his vote for the adoption of the Declaration of Independence)
