Echoing the declarations last month by leaders from the Group of 20 industrialized and large emerging nations, Mr. Bernanke said the United States needed to get its fiscal house in order while Asian countries needed to rely less on exports for their growth.
The phrase was there to echo the Declaration of Independence.
Echoing the Declaration of Independence, the document stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal".
But Caesar's tricolon is run close by those great orators Lincoln and Churchill, while in recent years Barack Obama has revived the form, sometimes going for a double tricolon, as in this speech echoing the Declaration of Independence: "Our generation's task is to make these words, these rights, these values – of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – real".
These declarations echoed the United States Declaration of Independence in announcing the independence of a new state, without necessarily endorsing the political philosophy of the original.
It was striking this weekend, for example, that Washington pointedly refused to echo the exuberant declarations of victory issued by the anti-Taliban forces.
His motion echoed the style and language of the Declaration's "long train of abuses".
"The claim that the speech harms the peace process is untenable, because there is no peace process". The paper printed the full text of Mr Trump's speech, dubbing it "The Jerusalem Declaration" - echoing the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which expressed the British government's support for a Jewish national home in Palestine and paved the way for Israel's creation.
A higher law exists, echoed in the Declaration of Independence, which guarantees human rights, even though the Constitution left the legality of slavery to the individual states.
The very first complaint listed in the 1689 document, that the king had suspended laws and the execution of laws "without consent of Parliament," is closely echoed in the Declaration's opening gripe, that the king had "refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good".
