Independence Day
Below is the “Preamble” to the Declaration of Independence. Today is Independence Day, the day we as Americans celebrate our predecessors laying it all on the line in order to develop this great Nation.
I am not a hugely political person. But it does make me sad that it is almost uncool at this point in history to be proud to be an American. There are things wrong with our country. Both presently, and in the past. But the concept that we should not be proud of who we are is craziness to me.
A few hundred years ago a bunch of men stood together and put everything on the line for what they believed was right. If that’s not a level of courage we should all aspire to I don’t know what is.
With that…
“Preamble” of the Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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