Declaration may refer to:
- Declaration (computer programming), specifies the identifier, type, and other aspects of language elements
- Declaration (cricket), when the captain of a cricket team declares its innings closed
- Declaration (law), a type of relief that may be ordered by a court or tribunal
- Declaration (poker), a formal expression of intent to take some action in the card game poker
- Declaration of independence, an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states
- Declaration of war, a formal declaration indicating that a state of war exists between nations
- The Declaration (novel), a 2008 children's novel by Gemma Malley
- A type of sentence (linguistics)
- A type of speech act in linguistics
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Famous quotes containing the word declaration:
“It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.”
—Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836)
“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)