I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
Stuart Symington

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Arlen Specter

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
David H. Souter

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Leland Stanford

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
Kate Millett

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
Cofer Black

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
George Grosz

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
Charles Hodge

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John Le Carre