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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 393
AUTHOR: Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–62)
QUOTATION: In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
ATTRIBUTION: HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, History of Civilization in England, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 341 (1903). First published in 1861.
SUBJECTS: Declaration of Independence