Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.
I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.
