Top 212 Declaring Quotes & Sayings

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Being in worship and declaring you know, the truth of scripture through song and, you know, because music gathers all of who you are, it helps you in your auditory senses, it helps you scientifically. It says it helps you at a molecular level and, so doing all these things and then declaring the living word of God, I mean, there's nothing quite like it when you're hanging on for your life.

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Since declaring that she would not serve in a second Obama administration, Clinton has dismissed suggestions that she will run in 2016.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

During my last year of college, I maxed out what small available credit I had after declaring bankruptcy in my mid-20s to pay medical bills.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.