Quotes about Declaration

Consider Thomas Jefferson's declaration: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed our only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?

It is not surprising, therefore, that Thomas Jefferson and his fellow founders would have referred four times in the Declaration of Independence to a Creator God of Providence.

He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said: