Sentence examples for opening of the declaration from inspiring English sources

There, you are confronted with statues of Thomas Jefferson and enslaved people, beneath Jefferson's ironic words from the opening of the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal".

Near the end of his one-hour speech, he pulled a copy of the Constitution from his pocket — calling it "the operator's manual for America" — and recited the opening of the Declaration of Independence, pausing at the word "Creator," so the audience could say it out loud, which they did.

It is paying to nullify the opening truth of the Declaration of Independence, that all men (and women) are created equal.

And the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence cite God as the author of the quest for freedom: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

Many events on that timeline are hardly Rocky Mountain-size milestones: the opening of the Coors Brewery (1873); the declaration of the Columbine as the state flower (1899); the pardoning of a convicted cannibal, Alfred Packer (1901); the town of Longmont's starting "Pumpkin Pie Days" and serving 10,000 pies (1908); and the naming of one Phil McCarty as Colorado State Liar (1933).

North Korea has backed away from the agreements it made with President George W. Bush, and Iran greeted the opening of the meeting here with a declaration, probably infused with more wishful thinking than reality, that it would soon be manufacturing a new generation of centrifuges to make uranium more quickly than ever.

The Washington exhibition will have a permanent counterpart opening next month at Monticello itself, where Jefferson, the writer of the Declaration of Independence, kept as many as 130 slaves.

Each participant updates the declaration of interests at the opening of the meeting.

www.historychannel.com/Declaration A history of the Declaration of Independence.

"The core of the declaration is political.

That was part of the declaration.