The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Ideas shape the course of history.
I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.