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

Again in Wag the Dog war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that which is not legal.

Hamas also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine includes the jihadists people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally Israel.

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

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis and pledged to do something about it if elected.

Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and choice is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.